Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover with or as with a shroud; hide in darkness, as with a cloak.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
cover with or as with ashroud . - verb transitive, figuratively To
hide indarkness , as with acloak .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From be- + shroud. Compare Old English bescrȳdan ("to clothe, cover with a shroud").
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