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单词 overshroud
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overshroudv.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈʃraʊd/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈʃraʊd/
Forms: see over- prefix and shroud v.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, shroud v.1
Etymology: < over- prefix + shroud v.1
Chiefly poetic.
transitive. To cover over as with a shroud; to form a shroud over.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > as with garment > specific
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a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xi. 139 Persand the ayr wyth body all ourschroud And dekkyt in a watry sabill cloud.
1592 N. Breton C'tess Penbrooke's Love (1879) 23/1 What shadowes here doe ouershroude the eie?
1658 N. Billingsley Κοσμοβρεϕια: Infancy of World iv. 24 She [sc. the moon] wears a Cypress hood and overshrouds Her shamfac'd count'nance, in the gloomy clouds.
1737 R. Glover Leonidas ix. 296 Sudden night o'ershrouds the spangled heav'ns.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 10 View now the Winter-Storm! above, one Cloud, Black and unbroken all the Skies o'ershrowd.
1886 Cent. Mag. June 213/2 The architect..may reckon largely on her [sc. nature's] charms when he is building summer homes; but he should depend on them only to assist the general beauty of his work, not to hide its shortcomings or overshroud its sins.
1940 C. W. Kennedy Beowulf (1978) 44 The lonely mere Where trees..Overshroud the wave with shadowing gloom.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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