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IPA: /ʃraʊd/

Shroud is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in shroud (dhorsu).

Definitions for shroud

noun

1. a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
2. something that covers or conceals like a garment:
3. Nautical. any of a number of taut ropes or wires converging from both sides on the head of a lower or upper mast of the outer end of a bowsprit to steady it against lateral sway: a part of the standing rigging.
4. Also called shroud line. Aeronautics. any of a number of suspension cords of a parachute attaching the load to the canopy.
5. Also called shrouding. Machinery. (on a nonmetallic gear) an extended metal rim enclosing the ends of the teeth on either side. (on a water wheel) one of two rings of boards or plates enclosing the buckets at their ends.
6. Rocketry. a cone-shaped shield that protects the payload of a launch vehicle.

verb (used with object)

1. to wrap or clothe for burial; enshroud.
2. to cover; hide from view.
3. to veil, as in obscurity or mystery:
4. to provide (a water wheel) with a shroud.
5. Obsolete. to shelter.

verb (used without object)

1. Archaic. to take shelter.

Origin of shroud

before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English scrūd; cognate with Old Norse skrūth; akin to shred; (v.) Middle English shrouden, derivative of the noun; replacing

Examples for shroud

Indeed, the shroud is as difficult to understand, in its way, as the Resurrection.

The most famous ones are the Mandylion of Edessa, the Veronica and the shroud of Turin.

Overall, the 1988 carbon-dating has made little difference to sindonology (as study of the shroud is known).

The shawl, we learn, weaves its way through Mexican life, from its use as a baby carrier to a shroud used to bury the dead.

They are mere ghosts, their skeletons wrapped in a shroud of whitewash.

The skirt of her shroud hung like a wet weed in the falling torrent.

Rauff speaks of a woman of Bohemia, who, in 1355, had eaten in her grave half her shroud.

Many women veil and shroud their heads in black as she does.

And yet the idea cleaves to me strangely, and is liable to stick to my shroud.

Ultimately, it is worry about what the shroud might mean that determines its rejection by modern rationalists.