"cloak2 verb cloak2 [transitive usually passive]1 to deliberately hide facts, feelings etc so that people do not see or understand them - used especially in news reports cloaked in secrecy/mystery The talks have been cloaked in secrecy.2 literary to cover something, for example with darkness or snow cloak in hills cloaked in mist ???cloaked adjective: The riders were cloaked (=they wore cloaks)." . . . .