Overview of noun shroud

The noun shroud has 3 senses

• shroud -- (a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute)


• sheet, tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, shroud -- ((nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind)


• pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes -- (burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped)

Overview of verb shroud

The verb shroud has 3 senses

• shroud, enshroud, hide, cover -- (cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery")


• shroud -- (form a cover like a shroud; "Mist shrouded the castle")


• shroud -- (wrap in a shroud; "shroud the corpses")