- head covering, veil - a garment that covers the head and face
--1 is a kind of garment
--1 has particulars:chador, chadar, chaddar, chuddar; face veil; yashmak, yashmac Derived form: verb veil1 - caul, veil, embryonic membrane - the inner embryonic membrane of higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
--2 is a kind of fetal membrane
--2 is a part of placenta - humeral veil, veil - a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
--3 is a kind of vestment
Derived form: verb veil1
- veil - to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces"
--1 is one way to hide, conceal
Antonyms: unveil
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun veil3, noun veil1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide - make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something