veil

noun

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Senses

a garment that covers the head and face

to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil

women in Afghanistan veil their faces

a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms

make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

a hidden message

the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

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

Sense	Relation	Group	Word
1	derivation	Related & opposite	veil
1	hypernym	Types & categories	garment
1	hyponym	Types & categories	chador
1	hyponym	Types & categories	face veil
1	hyponym	Types & categories	yashmak
2	antonym	Related & opposite	unveil
2	derivation	Related & opposite	head covering
2	derivation	Related & opposite	humeral veil
2	entails	Related & opposite	cover
2	hypernym	Types & categories	hide
3	hypernym	Types & categories	plant part
3	hyponym	Types & categories	universal veil
3	hyponym	Types & categories	partial veil
4	derivation	Related & opposite	concealing
4	derivation	Related & opposite	obliterable
4	verb group	Related & opposite	efface
4	hypernym	Types & categories	change
4	hyponym	Types & categories	mystify
5	part holonym	Parts & wholes	placenta
5	hypernym	Types & categories	fetal membrane
6	derivation	Related & opposite	veil
6	hypernym	Types & categories	vestment