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shroud

shroud is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 17 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

  2. 2noun

    Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

  3. 3noun

    That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

  4. 4noun

    A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

  5. 5noun

    The branching top of a tree; foliage.

  6. 6noun

    A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.

  7. 7noun

    One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

  8. 8noun

    To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.

  9. 9noun

    To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.

  10. 10intransitive verb

    To take shelter or harbor.

  11. 11transitive verb

    To lop. See Shrood.

  12. 12noun

    burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

    Synonyms

    cerementpall
  13. 13noun

    (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

    Synonyms

    mainsheetsheettack
  14. 14noun

    a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute

  15. 15verb

    wrap in a shroud

    "shroud the corpses"

  16. 16verb

    cover as if with a shroud

    "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"

    Synonyms

    coverenshroudhide
  17. 17verb

    form a cover like a shroud

    "Mist shrouded the castle"

Synonyms

cerementpallmainsheetsheettackcoverenshroudhide

Common word forms

shroudsshroudedshroudingshroudless

Words from these letters

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