Swedish-English translations for slöja

• veil
  Schoolgirls have been murdered for refusing to wear a veil. Skolflickor har mördats för att de vägrat att bära slöja.
  Let us now draw a veil over all that and look to the future. Låt oss nu dra en slöja över allt detta och blicka framåt.
  An insidious veil is clouding our vision, and we cannot even see it. En lömsk slöja fördunklar vårt seende, och vi märker det inte ens.
• blanket
  The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
  The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
  A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
• cloak
  We can no longer afford to cover the above issues with the cloak of charity. Dessa saker får vi inte längre dra en barmhärtighetens slöja över.
  Any Christian denomination based on the Bible knows that abuse of women cannot be covered by the cloak of charity. Varje kristen gemenskap som grundar sig på Bibeln vet att det inte går att täcka övergrepp mot kvinnor med barmhärtighetens slöja.
  Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness
• fog
  He did so many drugs, he was still in a fog three months after going through detox
  The mirror fogged every time he showered
• mantle
  At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
  The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
• shroud
  This must be made public knowledge and not hidden behind a shroud of 'trade secrecy' . Detta måste bli allmänt känt och inte gömt bakom en slöja av "handelssekretess".
  Those who, when dealing with this subject, invoke tradition, custom, religion or any other such nonsense do no more than shroud in hypocrisy their failure to confront barbarism. De som i sammanhanget hänvisar till traditioner och vanor, religion eller varje annat struntprat gör inget annat än att dölja sin uppgivenhet inför dessa barbariska seder med hyckleriets slöja.
  The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

Related words

• beslöja
• beslöjad