Why this word is great
BESHROUD — [Verb] To cover with, or as if with, a shroud, especially to obscure or conceal from view. From the English prefix be- (forming verbs with a sense of 'around, thoroughly') + shroud (from Old English sċrūd, meaning 'garment, clothing'). Unlike enshroud, which suggests a pervasive, often natural envelopment, or cloak, which implies a strategic disguise for secrecy, to beshroud carries the specific, tactile weight of its funereal root. It is the industrial grime that beshrouds a forgotten warehouse window, the heavy velvet pall drawn over a casket, or the polite silence that beshrouds a family's oldest sorrow—a deliberate draping of the palpable over what we can no longer bear to see clearly, a fabric of absence woven from finality.