Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cover with or as if with a shroud.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover with or as with a shroud; hence, to envelop with anything which conceals from observation: as, the sun was enshrouded in mist; to enshroud one's purpose in mystery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
cover with (or as if with) ashroud
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cover as if with a shroud
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Examples
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Placed within a long view of history, it clearly signals the formation of those antidemocratic forces waiting in the shadows for an opportune moment to enshroud the entirety of the United States in what the philosopher Hannah Arendt once called, "dark times."
Jeff Biggers: As Arizona Moves Bills for Guns and Bibles in Classroom, Tucson Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books: Interview With Norma Gonzalez Jeff Biggers 2012
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Placed within a long view of history, it clearly signals the formation of those antidemocratic forces waiting in the shadows for an opportune moment to enshroud the entirety of the United States in what the philosopher Hannah Arendt once called, "dark times."
Jeff Biggers: As Arizona Moves Bills for Guns and Bibles in Classroom, Tucson Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books: Interview With Norma Gonzalez Jeff Biggers 2012
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Placed within a long view of history, it clearly signals the formation of those antidemocratic forces waiting in the shadows for an opportune moment to enshroud the entirety of the United States in what the philosopher Hannah Arendt once called, "dark times."
Jeff Biggers: As Arizona Moves Bills for Guns and Bibles in Classroom, Tucson Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books: Interview With Norma Gonzalez Jeff Biggers 2012
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Photograph by Leon Chew An intact ruin that was once a museum We walk up a flight of stairs chiseled into the cheek of a dusty hillside where white tarps enshroud a city of relics, including grand terra-cotta structures used for worshipping, a corridor leading to a small chapel with a seated Buddha, and fragments of faded red frescoes although most have been removed by the archaeologists, others have been ravaged by looters.
Buried Treasure Marisa Mazria Katz 2012
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Placed within a long view of history, it clearly signals the formation of those antidemocratic forces waiting in the shadows for an opportune moment to enshroud the entirety of the United States in what the philosopher Hannah Arendt once called, "dark times."
Jeff Biggers: As Arizona Moves Bills for Guns and Bibles in Classroom, Tucson Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books: Interview With Norma Gonzalez Jeff Biggers 2012
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By engaging in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of derivatives trades every day, banks enshroud themselves in complex webs of debt that no regulator can decipher.
Zach Carter: Real Reform Gains Traction: Lincoln Stands Firm on Derivatives Overhaul 2010
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By engaging in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of derivatives trades every day, banks enshroud themselves in complex webs of debt that no regulator can decipher.
Zach Carter: Real Reform Gains Traction: Lincoln Stands Firm on Derivatives Overhaul 2010
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Despite the warnings, the journalists see a Russian tourist enshroud himself in the cloth and slide into the water from the Jordan site.
Karin Kloosterman: Baptizing in the Jordan River's Holy Sewage 2010
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Despite the warnings, the journalists see a Russian tourist enshroud himself in the cloth and slide into the water from the Jordan site.
Karin Kloosterman: Baptizing in the Jordan River's Holy Sewage 2010
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The question now is whether it's too late -- whether McCain's criticism of Rudy will be perceived as desperation on his part or whether it's too late to cut through the fog of 9/11 mythology that Rudy has managed to enshroud himself in.
Finally! McCain Questions Rudy's National Security Credentials 2009
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