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Meanings of shroud in English
Cloth in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
Synonyms
Examples for "cover"
Examples for "cover"
1
In other words, affected students will need more comprehensive private health cover.
2
Consumers would receive checks each month to help cover higher energy costs.
3
EBONY.com: It's been a year since you did our Power 100 cover.
4
The government estimated that the scheme will cover almost four million farmers.
5
Nor of course does Second Home cover the world, or want to.
1
Hughes did not attempt to hide from the reality of the situation.
2
Wrap dresses are easy to wear and hide all your problem areas.
3
To really hide from, say, a repressive government, you need unbreakable encryption.
4
I was supposedly protected however I cannot hide from it at work.
5
They hide in the crannies of the underworld; politics is their protection.
1
There is no chance to enshroud in mystery the ability to command.
2
Wrapped in the blankets, watching the nameless dark come to enshroud them.
3
Which shall enshroud mankind: this will be an afflictive torment.
4
The sweaty mist came up from below seeking to enshroud them in long, gauzy tentacles.
5
Now, calm and quiet oblivion and the sepulchre should surround and enshroud it forever more.
Usage of shroud in English
1
I'm not sure who said 'there are no pockets in a shroud'.
2
When the bands of the shroud have been loosened the people say:-
3
The sky was wrapped in its evening shroud of deep, mysterious darkness.
4
The shroud application represents one of the first, practical uses for FALCON.
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My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
6
She carried Wistan, wrapped in a shroud of blankets, in her arms.
7
His blunt words settle like a shroud over the rest of us.
8
Who was it under the vaults, in the shroud, between the planks?
9
It was the skeleton of his wife in her yet unmoulded shroud.
10
He was surprised to find drops of moisture falling on the shroud.
11
By degrees, a buried dread in his brain threw off its shroud.
12
Bead-work, the most ornate, expensive blankets and ribbons comprise the funeral shroud.
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Who is that in his shroud beneath the tree by the stream?
14
England is in her shroud,-wemay not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
15
In the flickering light, she looked as if she wore a shroud.
16
And the Turin shroud was a single garment for the whole body.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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