SHROUDING Synonyms: 111 Similar and Opposite Words

shrouding

verb

present participle of shroud

as in concealing

to keep secret or shut off from view shrouded the fact that the child had been adopted

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as in obscuring

to make dark, dim, or indistinct the smog shrouded our aerial view of the city

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as in wrapping

to surround or cover closely during rainy season the summit of the mountain is shrouded in mist

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Recent Examples of shrouding Congressional leaders, wired to protect their own and afraid of upsetting their narrow margins, are famous for shrouding ethics investigations in secrecy and dragging them out for years. — Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026 Advertisement Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Apr. 2026 Then venetian blinds shrouding the box slowly rose to reveal glass walls and, inside them, a sinister diorama—a replica of RTLM, or Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, the radio station that fuelled the catastrophe. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026 So unfortunately, right now there's a cloud of mystery still shrouding what's happening here. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026 The shrouding haze seemed to breathe, ebbing and flowing slowly, allowing momentary distant views that vanished with the next foggy breath. — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026 Jittery drum programming and shrouding reverb screams Minneapolis in the ‘80s, but the wonky thump and the multiplicity of vocal tracks are just as suggestive of D’Angelo or the raw pain of a Frank Ocean. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025 While reflecting on the gossip fueled by her and Powell's chemistry both on and offscreen with Variety, Sweeney refuted the idea that the rom-com's stars leaned into the mystery shrouding their relationship. — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Oct. 2025 Teeming with tennis courts, specimen trees and stone mansions raised from the dirt by 19th-century railroad barons, the suburb makes wealth feel like weather, an ozone layer shrouding everything — ambient, constant and vital. — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025

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Verb

Since then, the front portico of the building has been covered by a construction tarp, concealing most of its name.

— Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
The group is accused of diverting association dues, insurance, loan proceeds and collection revenues (others fees such as fines or special assessments) while concealing the flow of the money.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of concealing

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Forward vision is excellent because there’s no roof, A-pillars, or much of anything obscuring your view (the only model above the Signature Edition, called the Grand Touring, does include a roof of sorts).

— William Roberson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
The glass is reeded and translucent, obscuring the line cooks behind it.

— Alexis Benveniste, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of obscuring

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And Bryan is wrapping his model in gray and pink chiffon because … there is no because.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
RoboCop extends Stevens’ relationship with Amazon MGM Studios after recently wrapping production on a series adaptation of John le Carré’s Legacy of Spies for the studio’s platform MGM+ and BBC.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of wrapping

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The trio were found hiding in a ditch about 200 yards from where they were pulled over, according to the news release.

— Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2026
After six months of war, the deadlock has left the Islamic Republic bitterly divided, while its ultimate arbiter, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, remains in hiding.

— Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of hiding

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The title references Black Like Me, white journalist John Howard Griffin’s 1961 nonfiction book about darkening his skin to pass for Black in the Jim Crow South.

— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026
During a total eclipse, the moon completely covers the face of the sun, darkening the sky and revealing just the sun’s outer atmosphere called the corona.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of darkening

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Save this for cold weather to truly savor its rich, enveloping smokiness.

— Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026
The blur outside becomes enveloping and unfathomable; the universe inside the car evolves as the friends invent tension-defusing rituals to keep from screaming at one another.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of enveloping

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Pack a tube of petroleum jelly (Vaseline) in your first aid kit instead of antibiotic ointment and remember to flush all scrapes and cuts with copious amounts of clean water before covering them with the jelly.

— Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
Ground surveys can provide more detailed information at a particular site, but covering an entire subway corridor that way would be difficult.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of covering

Verb

Sure, some people like your reporting of each but FFS stop blurring them.

— Art de Roché, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Meta could introduce technical solutions, like automatically blurring faces, as Google does in Street View images, but Szydlowski doubts Meta would voluntarily make such a privacy-conscious change without regulatory or public pressure.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026

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