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hooded

[ hood-id ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

having, or covered with, a hood:
a hooded jacket.
having the shape of a hood; hood-shaped.
Zoology. having on the head a hoodlike formation, crest, arrangement of colors, or the like.
Botany. cucullate.

hooded

/ ˈhʊdɪd /

adjective

covered with, having, or shaped like a hood
(of eyes) having heavy eyelids that appear to be half closed

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Other Word Forms

hooded·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hooded¹

First recorded in 1400–50, hooded is from the late Middle English word hodid. See hood ¹, -ed ³

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After lurking on the promenade, a hooded man stepped on to the sand, repeatedly stabbed them and fled into the darkness, leaving the women to bleed to death.

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The footage showed Terriquez buying gloves and a type of hooded mask that painters use.

From Los Angeles Times

Video surveillance captured two hooded men jogging up to the home before the slaying.

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Footage previously played to the jury showed two vehicles driving across the Great Courtyard, before hooded individuals armed with sledgehammers and a large crowbar broke into the palace.

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Florence Pugh opened Harris Reed's show with a theatrical display, turning heads in a sculptural speared, hooded black gown.

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