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cloakcloak2 verb [transitive] VERB TABLEcloak |
Present | I, you, we, they | cloak | | he, she, it | cloaks | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | cloaked | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have cloaked | | he, she, it | has cloaked | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had cloaked | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will cloak | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have cloaked |
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Present | I | am cloaking | | he, she, it | is cloaking | | you, we, they | are cloaking | Past | I, he, she, it | was cloaking | | you, we, they | were cloaking | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been cloaking | | he, she, it | has been cloaking | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been cloaking | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be cloaking | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been cloaking |
- And he has laid himself wide open to the kind of criticism that will cloak him in a dark shroud of misery.
- Blasting through the grey language that usually cloaks such matters he accuses the Fund of corruption, self-interest and deceit.
- Evening twilight soon spread over the ocean and we were cloaked in the security of darkness.
- It also ensures that the city is permanently cloaked in a stinking cloud of smoke and dust.
- Often they are cloaked in the respectability of scientific terminology or social acceptability.
- The fire crackled and cloaked my advance.
- The hills behind my house are cloaked with three separate quilts.
- Though once cloaked in the trappings of the occult, conversations with local psychics suggest a slightly more psychotherapeutic approach.
► be cloaked in secrecy/mystery The talks have been cloaked in secrecy. 1to deliberately hide facts, feelings etc so that people do not see or understand them – used especially in news reportsbe cloaked in secrecy/mystery The talks have been cloaked in secrecy.2literary to cover something, for example with darkness or snowbe cloaked in something hills cloaked in mistGRAMMAR Cloak is usually passive.—cloaked adjective: The riders were cloaked (=they wore cloaks). |