shrouded
shrouded adjective: wearing, or provided with a shroud. Also the simple past and past participle of shroud.
Adjective
shrouded (comparative more shrouded, superlative most shrouded)
- Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
- Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II...
- I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 34
Also used as
shrouded is also the simple past and past participle of shroud.
Forms of shrouded
| comparative | more shrouded |
|---|---|
| superlative | most shrouded |
Origin of shrouded
From Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud + -ed.
Words formed from shrouded
- shrouded gear
- shrouded propeller
- unshrouded
Phrases with shrouded
Questions about shrouded
- What does shrouded mean?
- Shrouded means wearing, or provided with a shroud.
- What part of speech is shrouded?
- Shrouded is an adjective.
Words near shrouded in the dictionary
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