0 a cloth or long, loose piece of clothing that is used to wrap a dead body before it is buried --
1 a layer of something that covers or surrounds something: --
2 to hide something by covering or surrounding it: --
Suddenly all the lights went out and the house was shrouded in darkness.
Visitors have complained about the scaffolding that shrouds half the castle.
The burning of the cooperative building is still shrouded in mystery, but some people believe that the building was torched by guerrillas who regarded cooperatives as symbols of colonial exploitation.
Although virulent clonal groups arise, diversify and decay throughout the years through genetic recombination, immune selection and mutation [15, 18, 24, 39, 40], the dynamics of meningococcal carriage remains shrouded.
Cotton and agave fibers and at least two other tentatively identified fiber types are associated with the interments and represent clothing, burial shrouds, and personal accoutrements.
A not uncommon misconception about jazz is that players extemporise their music out of nothingness, that jazz improvisation is unbounded by recognisable rules, a sonic expatiation shrouded in mystery.
Although a clear definitional distinction can be made between shreading, shredding or shrouding and pollarding, we cannot be certain that the authors used the two terms consistently.
In the meantime, the precise contours of their relationship remains, like everything else in this poem, shrouded from view.
She sets out to illuminate the side of nature which is defined by being perpetually shrouded in darkness.
The policy process was shrouded in secrecy and this sometimes led to struggles between politicians and civil servants, the ultimate implementers of government programmes.