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veil

English

  1. 🔊 a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
  2. 🔊 a garment that covers the head and face
  3. 🔊 a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church
  4. 🔊 the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
  5. 🔊 to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
    “women in Afghanistan veil their faces”
  6. 🔊 make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
    “a hidden message”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 velar to veil

Similar words

head covering humeral veil caul embryonic membrane velum obscure blot out obliterate hide alibi apology apply to awning bamboo curtain barrier of secrecy beach umbrella becloud befog blackout blanket blind block bosom camouflage