MANTLE Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈman-tᵊl

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as in cloak

a sleeveless garment worn so as to hang over the shoulders, arms, and back a long black velvet mantle

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as in veil

something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth the mantle of secrecy that surrounds the operations of the organization's hierarchy

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verb

as in to wrap

to surround or cover closely early-morning fog mantled the fields along the river

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Recent Examples of mantle

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Editor’s picks With both a new creative direction for the OG series, as well as an entirely new cast of characters carrying on the mantle in tandem with The Last Ronin II, the potential for new TMNT stories that defy audience expectations appears vast. —

Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2024 In season four, Jodie Foster and boxer-turned-actor Kali Reis take up the mantle, playing two Alaskan police officers who join forces to solve a string of cold cases inspired by the ongoing epidemic of unanswered violence targeting Indigenous women. —

Elaina Patton, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2024

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All three are at risk: The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists Yucatán black howlers and Mexican howlers as endangered, and mantled howlers as vulnerable. —

Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024 Even as blue skies return, flood-weary farmers in the San Joaquin Valley have only to look east, to the towering Sierra mantled in snow, to know there is worse to come. —

Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023 See all Example Sentences for mantle

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The yellow of the cloak references the color of the flag of Vatican City.

— Virginia Raguin, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
Both approaches are forms of hegemonic reassertion—attempts to cement U.S. primacy on the world stage—but one cloaks itself in moral superiority, and the other does not.

— Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025