English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of shroud

shroud

/noun/ कफन; शव परिधान; मुर्दा लपेटने की चादर; कफ़न; ढक्कन; आवरण; परदा; शब लपेटने की चादर; नक़ाब; शव-परिधान;
/verb/ढांकना; ढकना; छिपाना; कफ़नाना;

Synonym grave-clothes; grave clothes; lid; cover; curtain; mask; cerements; sheathe; smother; hide; sheet;

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English Dictionary:

1. Shroud

[n.]

- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
- To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.

2. Shroud

[v. i.]

- To take shelter or harbor.

3. Shroud

[v. t.]

- To lop. See Shrood.