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enshroud, v.|ɛnˈʃraʊd| Also 7 inshrowd. [f. en-1 + shroud.] trans. To cover as with a shroud; to envelope completely; to hide from view. Also fig.
1583Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 31 Venus enshrowds theym with a thick fog. 1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iv, In gloomy vaile of night, Inshrowd the pale beams of thy borrowed light. 1761Churchill Apol. 4 They lurk enshrouded in the vale of night. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 200 Trails of thick blue mist enshroud The green far-gleaming glens. 1879Dixon Windsor II. xxiii. 243 The crimes..were enshrouded in the deepest mystery. Hence enˈshrouded ppl. a.
1830Tennyson Dirge ii, Nothing but the small, cold worm Fretteth thine enshrouded form. |