The act of covering with a cloak or concealing something; hiding or disguising.
Present participle and gerund form of becloak, created by adding -ing to the verb stem. The -ing suffix creates both the present participle (for progressive tenses) and gerunds (nouns derived from verbs).
The -ing form is unique in English because it can work as both a verb part ('I am cloaking') and as a noun ('Cloaking is an old trick'). This dual function makes English sentences beautifully flexible and is one reason why adding -ing is so useful in English compared to Romance languages!
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