SHROUDS Synonyms: 132 Similar and Opposite Words

shrouds 1 of 2

noun

plural of shroud

as in veils

something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth the truth of the affair will always be hidden under a shroud of secrecy

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verb

present tense third-person singular of shroud

as in conceals

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

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as in obscures

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

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as in wraps

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

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Noun

The secrecy mandate in state law shrouds more than just the financial details of a project. — Rob Davis, ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2026 Like the men, the women all wore overalls, shapeless shrouds of dark denim. — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026 Understanding this dual existence could be key to solving the origins of dust shrouds in interacting supernovas. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 July 2026 In the hospital’s courtyard, relatives wept over the bodies covered in white burial shrouds. — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026 Graves are dug by hand and bodies are only buried in caskets or shrouds made of biodegradable materials like bamboo or cotton. — Dorany Pineda, Fortune, 2 May 2026 The 39 members of the group were discovered lying on their backs and covered by purple shrouds. — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026 Many of its songs crystallize around samples of choirs singing, their soft syllables dissolving beneath heavy shrouds of reverb. — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2026 The glacier – now wrapped in vast white shrouds in a desperate attempt to slow its melting – emerges as both subject and body, altar and loss. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026

Verb

Officials recommended Friday that Marylanders, especially those with underlying medical conditions, stay indoors as the smoke shrouds the state. — Nicole Pilsbury, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2026 To understand why that shrouds a black hole in mystery, consider how no signal can travel faster than light. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 June 2026 Secrecy shrouds the guest list, although photos of John Legend and the Beckhams at Argentaia have popped on social media. — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 22 May 2026 This ornament, situating them as something between a throw pillow and a hand muff, shrouds the thick-boned fore- and hindquarters that give them a characteristic rolling gait. — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 And then there’s all the emerging tech, like a device that shrouds your body in inflammation-reducing red light at Carillon’s Miami Wellness Resort’s Inner Glow retreat, and a zero-gravity recliner at Canyon Ranch Lenox that can rescue you from menopausal rage at its M/Power retreat. — Erica Sloan, SELF, 23 Jan. 2026 The closure shrouds the 8,000-foot-high plateau and its elk, bison and occasional backcountry skiers in a winter wilderness that some advocates hope to protect and others seek to unlock. — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 5 Oct. 2025 Through the haze of doom that shrouds climate science shines the passion behind the quest to understand and solve one of the greatest challenges humanity has faced. — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025 So much of the suffering caused by conditions like PCOS, endometriosis, and menopause is the secrecy and shame that shrouds them. — Maria Yagoda, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2024

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrouds

Noun

Their heads are covered in waist-length teal veils, and black canvas work aprons cover their gray habits.

— Adora Namigadde, NPR, 23 July 2026
With diagnostic precision, shifting baseline syndrome puts a name on something that most of us have experienced—the ways in which the fog of forgetting veils experience.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

Definition of veils

Verb

Co-created by Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, Blue Eye Samurai follows the story of Mizu, a samurai who conceals her gender and mixed-race heritage after facing a life of discrimination, on a personal quest for revenge.

— Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 21 Aug. 2026
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus initially conceals his identity as the Messiah from even his closest disciples.

— John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of conceals

Verb

Eclipses always travel in pairs as the sun, moon and Earth align so precisely that one obscures the other.

— Marcia Dunn, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
Rather than blocking the sun entirely, the moon obscures only a portion of it, leaving behind the eclipse's signature crescent shape.

— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of obscures

Verb

Walruses were once hunted in vast numbers, for their blubber, hides and ivory, driving them close to extinction in Svalbard’s waters, before hunting was banned in 1952.

— Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
There clearly continues to be something very evocative about the idea that all the mundane pop-culture ephemera from one’s youth hides something darker.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of hides

Verb

After being shut out of this month’s total solar eclipse, the Americas will have the best seats in the celestial house when Earth’s shadow briefly envelops the moon.

— Marcia Dunn, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
The Mexican singer paints the picture of dancing with someone new to get over an ex but just like with Tokischa and Karol, the sadness envelops her.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026

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