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. noun. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
2. noun. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
3. noun. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
4. noun. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
5. noun. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
6. noun. 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. noun. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
8. noun. To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
9. noun. To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
10. intransitive verb. To take shelter or harbor.
11. transitive verb. To lop. See Shrood.
12. noun. burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

    Synonyms: cerement, pall

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

    Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, tack

14. noun. a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
15. verb. wrap in a shroud

    "shroud the corpses"

16. verb. cover as if with a shroud

    "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"

    Synonyms: cover, enshroud, hide

17. verb. form a cover like a shroud

    "Mist shrouded the castle"

Synonyms

cerement, pall, mainsheet, sheet, tack, cover, enshroud, hide

Common word forms

shrouds, shrouded, shrouding, shroudless

Words from these letters

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