enshroud

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to cover, wrap, or conceal as if with a shroud

   Heavy mist began to enshroud the mountain pass.

2. 2
   verb

   to make a subject obscure, mysterious, or difficult to understand

   Secrecy continued to enshroud the negotiations.

Formed from en- ("put in or cover with") + shroud. A shroud is a burial cloth, so the verb first evokes wrapping or hiding something in such a covering and readily extends to fog, secrecy, or mystery.

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