Shrouds is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHROUDS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHROUD, to attire in burial clothing
• wrap or dress (a body) in a shroud for burial
• cover or envelop so as to conceal from view
NOUN:
• a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial
• a protective casing or cover
• a thing that envelops or obscures something
• a set of ropes forming part of the standing rigging of a sailing boat and supporting the mast or topmast.
• each of the lines joining the canopy of a parachute to the harness.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to wrap in burial clothing

Words related to SHROUDS

shroud10 shrouded13 shrouding14

Words that contain SHROUDS

beshrouds15 enshrouds13 unshrouds13 disenshrouds17

How to use SHROUDS in a sentence

• But in untried youth sadness has a touch of beauty, a glamour of romance which shrouds its deepest pain.
• Then up rushes a volume of thick, white smoke, and we are enveloped as in shrouds.
• Thick clusters of boarders hung upon her sides and shrouds.
• On a bitter cold night, when the north-east winds sang through the shrouds of the vessel, the little boys were crouched on the deck behind a bale of goods, to sleep for the night.
• High up among the spars and shrouds swarmed the seamen.
• Tall masts, to which clung shot-torn shrouds, reared high above a fog of powder-smoke, and beyond waved the tops of palm-trees.
• When the admiral shall hang out a flag in the main shrouds, you shall know it to be a flag of council.
• If it continues, your starboard shrouds will be torn out.
• After a time Curtis made his way along the netting to the shrouds, and swung himself quickly up to the top of the mainmast.
• The shrouds were broken, but happily the mast, already bending almost double, was removed by the men from its socket before it should be snapped short off.
• He was in a fever of impatience until at length, the tangled shrouds having been cut away, the rowing was resumed and the two vessels began again to creep slowly seaward.
• One of the fore shrouds and the foremast, carried away.
• The living slowly rose as from the dead and shook their white shrouds.
• At this point we were wont to summon courage and rush out, with the kitchen poker and a candle shapeless with tallow shrouds from the strong draughts.
• The shrouds of the after masts were generally set up within the bulwarks.
• The visions were usually symbolical, shrouds, coffins, funerals.
• For nothing in the world would I have again ventured, shaken as I was, upon the overhanging port shrouds from which Israel had so lately fallen.
• The following day I saw its skin stretched on the shrouds of the vessel, to whose captain it had been presented.
• A large mass of the deck, with part of the gunwale attached to it, lay close beside him, held to the mast by one of the shrouds.
• Near a destroyed church, in coarse yellow linen shrouds, were the bodies of thirty-three of the persons who there lost their lives.
• Knowledge shows the way, while ignorance shrouds the path in darkness.

Similar words containing SHROUD without suffix s

shroud10 shroudy14 beshroud14 enshroud12 shrouded13 unshroud12 beshrouds15 enshrouds13 shroudier13 shrouding14 unshrouds13 beshrouded17 enshrouded15 shroudiest14 shroudings15 shroudless14 unshrouded15 beshrouding18 disenshroud16 enshrouding16 unshrouding16 disenshrouds17 disenshrouded19 disenshrouding20

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