cloak

1. 1.

   anything that covers or conceals

   Broadercovering
2. 2.

   a loose outer garment

   Broaderovergarment

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Other forms of cloak

plural

cloaks·

past tense

cloaked·

present participle

cloaking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cloak

What does cloak mean?

cloak means "hide under a false appearance". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cloak?

cloak has 1 syllable: cloak. In IPA it is /ˈkloʊk/.

What is another word for cloak?

Close synonyms include dissemble, mask, clothe, drape, robe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cloak a common word?

cloak is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.