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Enshroud

Definition: Enshroud

Enshroud

Verb

1. Cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "enshroud" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)



Synonyms: Enshroud

Synonyms: cover (v), hide (v), shroud (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Enshroud

Specialty definitions using "enshroud": Climbing. (references)

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Modern Translations: Enshroud

Language Translations for "enshroud"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mbuloj (be submerged, bespread, blanket, cap, Ceil, cloak, clothe, cover, cover in, cover over, cover up for, curtain, defray, disguise, dissimulate, entwine, envelop, enwrap, heap, incase, mantle, overcast, overspread, paint out, roof, screen, sheathe, sheet, smother, suffuse, tuck up, wrap), mbështjell (clothe, coil, encase, enfold, enlace, envelop, enwrap, fold, inlace, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, nuzzle, overcast, reel, reel up, roll, scarf, sheet, throw on, throw out, tuck up, twine, underpin, wind, wind on, wrap, wreathe), fsheh (Bury, cache, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, Harbor, harbour, hide, hide away, obscure, plant, screen, secrete, sink, stash, veil, withhold, wrap up). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كفن (grave clothes, lay out, pall, shroud, winding sheet), ‏ستر (coat, cover, cover up, inter, screen, shade, veil). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скривам (cache, conceal, dissemble, hide, hoard, hold back, obscure, plant, put back, screen, secrete, sink, stash, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), обвивам в саван, обвивам в плащеница, забулвам (envelop, shroud, veil), покривам (bestride, cap, case, clothe, coat, cope, cover, cover up, deck, defray, do over, encase, encrust, film, horse, invest, mantle, overcast, overlay, overlie, overspread, pave, pit, pustulate, sheet, surmount, vesture, wreathe). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zahalit (blot out, muffle, shroud). (various references)

   

French

  

ensevelir. (various references)

   

German

  

einhüllen (cladding, cladding process, clothe, cover, drape, encapsulate, enfold, envelop, jacket, muffle, swathe, to jacket, wrap, wrap up). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καλύπτω (blanket, cap, cloak, cover, defray, mask, mat, muffle, span, veil), σαβανώνω, τυλίγω (close in on, coil, drape, enfold, engulf, envelop, furl, kink, roll up, to cone, to reel, to spool, to wind, to wind up, wind, wrap, wreathe). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

beburkol (enfold, envelop, involve, to case, to enshroud, to enswathe, to envelop, to incase, to involve, to sheathe, to shroud, to swathe, to tuck sg away, wrap), beborít (bedeck, clothe, enfold, envelop, enwrap, mantle, overcast, overlaid, overlay, to cloak, to coat, to cope, to deck, to do over, to encrust, to enfold, to engulf, to enshroud, to envelop, to overlay, to weather-board, to wrap). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nascondere con un velo, coprire con un velo, avvolgere (befog, cloak, enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold, inclose, lap, muffle, pack, package, reel, roll, shroud, throw, to wind up, wind, wrap, wrap up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enshrouday

   

Portuguese

  

encobrir (Burke, cloak, cover up, disguised, hide, hood, mask, occult, secrete, varnish), ter em grande conta (treasure, value), amortalhar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

înveli (case, cover, encase, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fleece, lap, mantle, muffle, roof, sheathe, tuck, wrap), înfãşura (braid, coil, convolve, enfold, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, fold, furl, lap, muffle, pack, parcel, roll, swathe, twine, wind, wrap). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

скрывать от глаз, обволакивать (envelop), покрывать саваном. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pokriti (bespread, coat, cover, hap, mantle, overcast, sheet, shroud, top). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

envolver completamente, torcer a (bend, buckle, slue, twirl), amortajar (lay out, sheet, shroud). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

insvepa (swathe, wrap up). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ปิ"บัง (blindfold, cover, hold back, obscure). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kefene sarmak (shroud), gizlemek (blot out, bottle up, Bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, draw a veil over, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep back, keep from, keep in dark, keep in one's bosom, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, mask, obscure, plant, pocket, screen, secrete, sheathe, shroud, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), örtmek (blanket, canopy, cap, carpet, case, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, coat, conceal, condone, cope, cover, cover up, encase, envelop, hood, incase, lap, robe, screen, shade, sheet, shield, shroud, shut, submerge, wrap). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ховати від очей, окутувати, огортати (wrap). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

amdoi (shroud). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Enshroud

Derivations

Words beginning with "enshroud": enshrouded, enshrouding, enshrouds. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Enshroud" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eshwood, nephroid, sensaround. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Enshroud"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "enshroud" (pronounced unshrou"d)
4-sh r ou" dshroud.
3-r ou" dbrowed, crowd, proud, Stroud.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Enshroud

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hounders, unhorsed.

Words within the letters "d-e-h-n-o-r-s-u"

-1 letter: dehorns, enduros, hounder, resound, sounder, undoers, unhorse.

-2 letters: dehorn, douser, drones, enduro, herons, honers, hordes, horned, horsed, hounds, housed, houser, noshed, nosher, nursed, onrush, redons, reshod, rouens, rounds, roused, rushed, senhor, shored, shroud, snored, sonder, sorned, soured, sunder, undoer, undoes, unshed, unshod, uredos.

-3 letters: doers, doser, douse, drone, druse, dunes, dures, durns, duros, euros, herds, herns, heron, heros, hoers, honed, honer, hones, horde, horns, horse, hosed, hosen, hound, hours, house, hurds, nerds, nodes, nodus, nosed, nuder, nudes, nurds, nurse, redon, redos, rends, resod, rosed, rouen, roues, round, rouse, runes, senor, shend, sherd, shoed, shoer, shone, shore, shorn, shred, snore, sonde, sound, sudor, under, uredo, usher.

-4 letters: dens, doer, does, done, dons, dore, dors, dose, dour, dues, dune, duns, duos, dure, durn, duro, edhs, ends, eons, erns, eros, euro, hens, herd, hern, hero, hers, hods, hoed, hoer, hoes, hone, hons, horn, hose, hour, hued, hues, huns, nerd, node, nods, noes, nose, nosh, nous, nude, nurd, odes, ohed, ones, onus, ores, ouds, ours, redo, reds, rend, resh, rhos, rhus, rode, rods, roes, rose, roue, rude, rued, rues, rune, runs, ruse, rush, send, shed, shod, shoe, shun, sned, sone, sord, sore, sorn, sour, sued, suer, surd, sure, udos, unde, undo, urds, urns, used, user.

-5 letters: den, doe, don, dor, dos, due, duh, dun, duo, edh, eds, end, ens, eon, ern, ers, hen, her, hes, hod, hoe, hon, hue, hun, nod, noh, nor, nos, nus, ode, ods, oes, ohs, one, ons, ore, ors, ose, oud, our, red, res, rho, rod, roe, rue, run, sen, ser, she, sod, son, sou, sue, sun, udo, uns, urd, urn, use.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-h-n-o-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: enshrouds, nourished, undershot.

 

+2 letters: bounderish, chondrules, deerhounds, enshrouded, greyhounds, horehounds, horrendous, roundhouse, thunderous, undershoot.

 

+3 letters: beshrouding, enshrouding, groundsheet, hydrogenous, roundhouses, shouldering, undershoots, undershorts.

 

+4 letters: dreadnoughts, droughtiness, groundfishes, groundsheets, horrendously, housetrained, malnourished, southernwood, thunderbolts, thunderously, thunderstone, thunderstorm, underclothes, undergrowths.

 

+5 letters: boardinghouse, boustrophedon, diathermanous, hazardousness, hyaluronidase, hydroquinones, overnourished, southernwoods, thunderclouds, thundershower, thunderstones, thunderstorms, thunderstroke, undershooting, unorthodoxies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Enshroud


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 73 68 72 6F 75 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01110011 01101000 01110010 01101111 01110101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#115 &#104 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0073 0068 0072 006F 0075 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3980857484818770

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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