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hooding

hooding

7.8
Putting a cover over a person's head for a ceremony or as punishment
  • noun
  • /ˈhʊdɪŋ/
  • Offensive
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  • The prisoner was subjected to hooding as a form of punishment.

It's a war crime to put hoods on them.

Examples

  • The university held a hooding ceremony for its new graduates.

  • He enjoyed the hooding ceremony.

  • During the ritual, the hooding of the falcon signaled the start of the hunt.

  • The ceremony involved the hooding of the new graduate.

  • The prisoner was subjected to hooding during the interrogation as a method of coercion.

  • Hooding is often used in hooding ceremonies to symbolize initiation or transformation.

  • To prevent distractions during the ceremony, they used hooding to cover the participants' heads.

Antonyms

uncovering
3.2

Finding and showing something that was hidden

Surface Forms

hooding singular
hoodings plural

Morphology

hooding = hood (transparent) = hood + ing

Derived by adding the agent/action nominalizer -ing to the verb 'hood', so the sense 'act of putting a hood on' is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word hooding comes from hood, meaning a 'cover for the head'. In ceremonies a hood is put on a graduate or on someone's shoulders to show honour, and in punishment a hood may be put over a person's head to hide or shame them, so hooding is the act of putting a hood on someone or something.