Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cover with or as with a shroud; hide in darkness, as with a cloak.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To cover with or as with a shroud.
  • verb transitive, figuratively To hide in darkness, as with a cloak.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From be- +‎ shroud. Compare Old English bescrȳdan ("to clothe, cover with a shroud").

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