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veil
veil is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 14 senses
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- 1noun
Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
- 2noun
A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
- 3noun
The calyptra of mosses.
- 4noun
A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
- 5noun
A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
- 6noun
Same as Velum, 3.
- 7noun
To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
- 8noun
Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
- 9noun
a garment that covers the head and face
- 10noun
a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
- 11noun
the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
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- 12noun
a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
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- 13verb
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
"a hidden message"
"a veiled threat"
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- 14verb
to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
"women in Afghanistan veil their faces"
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