Shroud

What do we mean by shroud?

A cloth used to wrap a body for burial; a winding sheet. noun

Something that conceals, protects, or screens. noun

One of a set of ropes or wire cables stretched from the masthead to the sides of a vessel to support the mast. noun

A similar supporting line for a smokestack or comparable structure. noun

One of the ropes connecting the harness and canopy of a parachute. noun

To wrap (a corpse) in burial clothing. intransitive verb

To envelop and obscure or shut off from sight: synonym: block. intransitive verb

To envelop or be associated with and make difficult to understand. intransitive verb

To shelter; protect. intransitive verb

To take cover; find shelter. intransitive verb

One of a set of strong ropes extending from a ship's mastheads to each side of the ship to support the mast. noun

To cover as with a garment or veil; especially, to clothe (a dead body) for burial.

To clothe one's self in; put on.

To cover or deck as with a garment; overspread; inclose; envelop.

To cover so as to disguise or conceal; veil; obscure.

To shelter; screen; hide.

To put one's self under cover; take shelter.

To gather together, as beasts do for warmth.

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.

One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Words that are spelled similarly to shroud:
shroud, shrowd, stroud, shrood, shrout.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word shroud:
shrouds, turin, linen, cloth, pia, relic, secrecy, avatar, embroidered, whiting, mariner, muzzle, barrel, nazareth, savoy, coffin, bolt, burial, booster, turbine, darkness, authenticity, mast, corpse, jesus, rotor, wrapped, image, authentic, tomb, devotion, parachute, dresden, reactor, photograph, module, christ, samples, constantinople, icon, altar, naked, silk, mystery, holy, cylinder, dating, angel, holes, rogers, thermal, grave, carved, sample, bearing, chapel, shadow, cathedral, marvel, shift, sight, core, tested, weapon, jerusalem, covering, carbon, face, dead, displayed, pope, correct, medieval, tests, origin.

Words that rhyme with shroud:
cloud, doud, proud, crowd, loud, allowed, endowed, aloud, avowed, cowed, croud, bowed, plowed, stroud, enshroud, froude, dowd, unbowed, browed, vowed, ploughed, disavowed, magellanic cloud, rain cloud, out loud, sowed, overcrowd, wowed, nimbus cloud, storm cloud, disallowed, daoud, boughed, macleod, abboud, mcleod, cirrus cloud, stratus cloud, mushroom cloud, houde, mccloud, soughed, dust cloud, houghed, emeraude, large magellanic cloud, mcloud, nowed, small magellanic cloud, war cloud, odowd, goude, vanderwoude.

Adjectives that are often used to describe shroud:
white, black, dark, gray, thick, heavy, protective, cold, long, pale, bloody, snowy, silken, grey, icy, simple, plastic, thin, lower, purple, green, holy, outer, red, front, clean, rear, upper, wet, dense, fine, splendid, spotless, bright, soft, gloomy, impenetrable, martial, leaden, stiff, blue, invisible, plain, crimson, ghostly, mysterious, brown, monumental, forward, foremost, fitting, vast, transparent, damp, yellow, murky, frozen, shadowy, starboard, golden, watery, pure, dishonoured, wintry, silent, embroidered, tattered, inner, funereal, cylindrical, vaporous, like, seamless, empty, profoundest, dirty, liquid, ragged, stainless, dim, coarse.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective shroud:
screws, drops, analysis, waving, making, ratio, stealers, seals, surface, shirts, plates, seal.

Consonant match to shroud:
shrewd, shred, shrowd, schrade, shrode.

Words that sound like shroud:
shroud, shrowd, schrod, shred, charade, shrewd, shrout, schrade, shrode, shrood, srid, shrouds, sherd, charette, shrow, jrod, shirred, shright, girod, shroudy, gerade, schritt, shrd, trowed, shod, sraw, schaad, shirt, shout, should, shade, shed, showed, shreds, shrew, shredder, trod, shad, charades, shrugged, tshirt, sre, sri, sherwood, shied, shri, shoed, schroeder, srt, sheree, sheed, shrt, shooed, shid, sra, shree, schrader, shedd, schuld, shrader, she'd, sched, a-rod, shariah, shrilled, schroder, schade, shadd, a rod, shide, lrod, sherrod, shru, shirted, shrined, schad, shreddy, sharad, sro, shrewder, shraddha, shewed, scheid, shower head, shrived, shra, shode, shadde, schwede, shude, shrider, shoad, shro, sru, schrei, schede, scheide, serad, irade, irad.