CLOAKED

cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped

(adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; “leaf-clothed trees”; “fog-cloaked meadows”; “a beam draped with cobwebs”; “cloud-wrapped peaks”

cloaked, disguised, masked

(adjective) having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading; “hidden agenda”; “masked threat”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

cloaked (not comparable)

Wearing a cloak.

Covered, hidden, disguised.

Verb

cloaked

simple past tense and past participle of cloak

Anagrams

• decloak

Source: Wiktionary


CLOAK

Cloak (; 110), n. Etym: [Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtik origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st Clock.]

1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover. No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South. Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.

Cloak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloaking.]

Definition: To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal. Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. Spenser.

Syn.

– See Palliate.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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