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Etymology

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From Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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shrouded (comparative more shrouded, superlative most shrouded)

  1. Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
  2. Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
    • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider []”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, [], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
      She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
    • 2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 34:
      I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.

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Verb

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shrouded

  1. simple past and past participle of shroud