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ENSHROUD
Definition of ENSHROUD
verb
to cover with (or as if with) a shroud
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
ENSHROUD carries 3 further meanings.
To cover with or as with a shroud; hence, to envelop with anything which conceals from observation: as, the sun was enshrouded in mist; to enshroud one's purpose in mystery.
transitive verb
To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud.
verb
cover as if with a shroud
Where it comes from
From en- + shroud.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ENSHROUD · 3 relatives in the game
ENSHROUD in a sentence
“Placed within a long view of history, it clearly signals the formation of those antidemocratic forces waiting in the shadows for an opportune moment to enshroud the entirety of the United States in what the philosopher Hannah Arendt once called, "dark times."”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ENSHROUD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 58 boards so far. 118 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ENSHROUD starts with E and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEHNORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of ENSHROUD. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ENSHRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found ENSHROUD?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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