Synonyms of shrouding

shrouding

verb

present participle of shroud

1

as in concealing

to keep secret or shut off from view

shrouded the fact that the child had been adopted

Synonyms & Similar Words

• concealing
• obscuring
• hiding
• covering
• suppressing
• disguising
• masking
• enshrouding
• cloaking
• veiling
• blanketing
• curtaining
• occulting
• overshadowing
• blocking
• screening
• burying
• belying
• blotting out
• camouflaging
• papering over
• covering (up)
• smothering
• darkening
• obstructing
• whitewashing
• clouding
• shading
• varnishing
• eclipsing
• occluding
• overcasting
• beclouding
• glossing (over)
• gilding
• befogging
• bedimming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disclosing
• revealing
• exposing
• showing
• uncovering
• displaying
• divulging
• baring
• presenting
• unmasking
• unveiling
• bringing out
• uncloaking
• clarifying
• illuminating
• spreading
• publishing
• proclaiming
• publicizing
• advertising
• broadcasting
• getting out
• airing

2

as in obscuring

to make dark, dim, or indistinct

the smog shrouded our aerial view of the city

Synonyms & Similar Words

• obscuring
• darkening
• blurring
• blackening
• clouding
• overshadowing
• dimming
• fogging
• overcasting
• beclouding
• shadowing
• misting
• hazing
• concealing
• hiding
• covering
• shading
• obliterating
• overclouding
• eclipsing
• fuzzing (up)
• dislimning
• blearing
• masking
• befogging
• bedimming
• adumbrating
• cloaking
• veiling
• camouflaging
• disguising
• curtaining
• screening
• blotting out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• illuminating
• lighting (up)
• brightening
• revealing
• lightening
• exposing
• uncovering
• illumining
• unveiling

3

as in wrapping

to surround or cover closely

during rainy season the summit of the mountain is shrouded in mist

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wrapping
• enveloping
• enclosing
• encasing
• enshrouding
• encompassing
• veiling
• muffling
• draping
• involving
• enfolding
• swathing
• cocooning
• embracing
• mantling
• enwrapping
• encircling
• embedding
• cloaking
• lapping
• embowering
• bowering
• bosoming
• embosoming
• enswathing
• curtaining
• investing
• circumfusing
• circling
• disguising
• blanketing
• swaddling
• masking
• camouflaging
• overlaying
• overspreading
• enwinding
• enlacing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing
• stripping
• baring
• denuding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of shrouding

Congressional leaders, wired to protect their own and afraid of upsetting their narrow margins, are famous for shrouding ethics investigations in secrecy and dragging them out for years. — Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026

Advertisement Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Apr. 2026

Then venetian blinds shrouding the box slowly rose to reveal glass walls and, inside them, a sinister diorama—a replica of RTLM, or Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, the radio station that fuelled the catastrophe. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026

So unfortunately, right now there's a cloud of mystery still shrouding what's happening here. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026

The shrouding haze seemed to breathe, ebbing and flowing slowly, allowing momentary distant views that vanished with the next foggy breath. — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026

Jittery drum programming and shrouding reverb screams Minneapolis in the ‘80s, but the wonky thump and the multiplicity of vocal tracks are just as suggestive of D’Angelo or the raw pain of a Frank Ocean. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025

While reflecting on the gossip fueled by her and Powell's chemistry both on and offscreen with Variety, Sweeney refuted the idea that the rom-com's stars leaned into the mystery shrouding their relationship. — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Oct. 2025

Teeming with tennis courts, specimen trees and stone mansions raised from the dirt by 19th-century railroad barons, the suburb makes wealth feel like weather, an ozone layer shrouding everything — ambient, constant and vital. — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025