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# shroud

noun (a shroud, shrouds); verb (shroud, shrouds, shrouded, shrouding)

«shroud» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (noun) A cloth that a dead body is wrapped in before burial. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#m1)
2. (noun) Something that covers or hides: "a shroud of mist", "a shroud of secrecy". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#m2)
3. (verb) To cover or hide something: "Fog shrouded the town." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#m3)
4. (noun, sailing) One of the ropes that hold a ship's mast steady. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#m4)

### In the lessons

In history and religion lessons, bodies were wrapped in shrouds; the Turin Shroud is a famous cloth that some Christians believe wrapped Jesus's body, though its age is disputed. In stories, "shrouded in mystery" means hidden and secret. Phrases: shrouded in mist, shrouded in mystery, a shroud of secrecy, burial shroud.

### Examples

- The castle was shrouded in fog. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#x1)
- The old house was shrouded in mystery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#x2)
- The body was wrapped in a white shroud. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#x3)
- A shroud of smoke hung over the city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#x4)
- The plan was kept under a shroud of secrecy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#x5)
- The sailor climbed the shrouds to the top of the mast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#x6)
- She went up to the corpse, and drew away its shroud from it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/#x7)

### Note

"Shrouded in" is the common pattern. Rhymes with "cloud". Scientists who tested the Turin Shroud dated it to the Middle Ages; others still argue.

## In Jewish tradition

In Ezekiel it means a thick covering of leafy branches, not a burial cloth.

**Interpretation.** Ezekiel compares proud Assyria to a great cedar, a picture of a mighty empire that is later cut down. The tradition reads it as a warning to Egypt and to every proud power.

### Examples

- Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs. (Prophets EZK.31.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shroud/#x1)

### Note

"Shrouded in" is the common pattern. Rhymes with "cloud". Scientists who tested the Turin Shroud dated it to the Middle Ages; others still argue.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «shroud» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shroud/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shroud» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/shroud.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «shroud» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shroud/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shroud» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/shroud.html) on Mova free.