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Words related to veil

Related / Similar Words: head covering, humeral veil, caul, embryonic membrane, obscure, blot out, obliterate, hide

Definition:

a garment that covers the head and face;

a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl;

the inner embryonic membrane of higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth);

make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat";

to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces";

Hyponyms: chador, chadar, chaddar, chuddar, face veil, yashmak, yashmac

Entailments: cover

Part Meronyms: placenta

Derivational Morphology: concealment, concealing, hiding, humeral veil, head covering

Anagrams: evil, Levi, live, vile

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