Definitions For Veil

noun

  • 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 membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
  • A membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
  • A piece of cloth or net worn usually by women over the head and shoulders and sometimes over the face
  • Something that covers or hides something else

verb

  • Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
  • To obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
  • To cover (something) with a veil or with something that is like a veil : to hide or partly hide (something)

Is Veils a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
8
Words with Friends
10

The word Veil is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Veil in a Sentence

  • Veils of moss draped the trees.
  • Under the veil of descending darkness the thieves began their operation
  • Her eyes were partially veiled by her long, dark hair.
  • The sun was veiled by clouds.

Synonyms for Veil

Antonyms for Veils

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