shroud

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

shroud [shroud shrouds shrouded shrouding] noun, verb BrE [ʃraʊd] NAmE [ʃraʊd]
noun
1. a piece of cloth that a dead person's body is wrapped in before it is buried
•a burial shroud
2. ~ of sth (literary)a thing that covers, surrounds or hides sth
•The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.
•a shroud of smoke

Word Origin:
late Old English scrūd ‘garment, clothing’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘cut’; related to ↑shred. An early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘cover so as to protect’.

Example Bank:
•The nuclear project was cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.
•a shroud of darkness/mist

 
verb usually passive
1. ~ sth in sth (of ↑darkness, clouds, cloth, etc.)to cover or hide sth
•The city was shrouded in mist.
•furniture shrouded in dust sheets
2. ~ sth in sth to hide information or keep it secret and mysterious
•His family background is shrouded in mystery.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
late Old English scrūd ‘garment, clothing’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘cut’; related to ↑shred. An early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘cover so as to protect’.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  pall, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes, sheet, tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, enshroud, hide, cover