Translate shroud | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of shroud
noun
1a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial:he was buried in a linen shroud technical a protective casing or cover.
2a thing that envelops or obscures something:a shroud of mist they operate behind a shroud of secrecy
3 (
shrouds)
a set of ropes forming part of the standing rigging of a sailing vessel and supporting the mast from the sides. (also shroud line) each of the lines joining the canopy of a parachute to the harness.
verb
[with object] 1wrap or dress (a body) in a shroud for burial.
2cover or envelop so as to conceal from view:mountains shrouded by cloud the mystery that shrouds the origins of the universe
