Shroud
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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 rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cover with a shroud. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
Example sentence: The Lantos Human Rights Prize is intended to serve as a beacon of hope, justice and human decency in a world too often covered in a shroud of darkness.
Hide
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The skin of an animal.A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.A medieval land measure equal to the amount of land that could sustain one free family; usually 100 acres. Forty hides equalled a barony.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
Example sentence: A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.