Definitions for veiled

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Spelling: [veyld]

IPA: /veɪld/

Veiled is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in veiled (deeilv).

Definitions for veiled

noun

1. a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
2. a piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulders on each side of the face, forming a part of the headdress of a nun.
3. the life of a nun, especially a cloistered life.
4. something that covers, separates, screens, or conceals:
5. a mask, disguise, or pretense:
6. Botany, Anatomy, Zoology. a velum.
7. Mycology. a membrane that covers the immature mushroom of many fungi and breaks apart as the mushroom expands, leaving distinctive remnants on the cap, stalk, or stalk base.
8. Scot. and North England. a caul.

Idioms

1. take the veil, to become a nun.

adjective

1. having a veil:
2. covered or concealed by, or as if by, a veil:
3. not openly or directly expressed; masked; disguised; hidden; obscure:
4. lacking clarity or distinctness:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or conceal with or as with a veil:
2. to hide the real nature of; mask; disguise:

verb (used without object)

1. to don or wear a veil:

Origin of veiled

First recorded in 1585-95; veil + -ed³

Examples for veiled

Another piece complicating all of this is that the Harvard Ad Board is veiled in mystery.

In one, and only one, of all these figures his dignity is veiled in sadness.

The house version of chicken fried steak is, in fact, pork-fried steak, veiled in panko breadcrumbs under a mantle of gravy.

The bride, veiled in a red veil, was led in by two maid-servants.

“We have rarely seen such images of veiled Muslim women going viral,” Naili told The Daily Beast.

Each accused their opponent in veiled language of voting fraud.

veiled as it was by the gathering gloom, she yet could not keep it towards me.

Mr Verloc intimated in a throaty, veiled murmur that he was no longer young.

In every litter sat a veiled woman, and the princess was in their midst.

The family and Ms. Yoshimatsu interpreted this a veiled threat.