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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, camouflage, cloud, confound, confuse, darken, dim, fog, hide, muddy, mystify, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, perplex, puzzle |
| Antonyms: | clear up |
| Main Entry: | disguisement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | façade |
| Synonyms: | camouflage, cloak, concealment, cover-up, disguise, false front, front, guise, mask, masquerade, veil, veneer |
| Main Entry: | infold |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrap |
| Synonyms: | absorb, bandage, bind*, bundle, bundle up, camouflage, cloak, clothe, cover, drape, encase, encircle, enclose, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, gift-wrap, hide, immerse, invest, mask, muffle, pack, package, protect, roll, roll up, sheathe, shelter, shroud, swaddle, swathe, twine, veil, wind, wrap up |
| Main Entry: | inveiglement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lure |
| Synonyms: | allurement, ambush, appeal, attraction, bait, bribe, call, camouflage, carrot, come-on, con game, decoy, delusion, draw, enticement, fake*, gimmick, hook*, illusion, incentive, inducement, invitation, magnet, mousetrap, pull, seducement, seduction, siren song, sitting duck, snare, sweetener, temptation, tout, trap, trick |
| Main Entry: | stash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, blot out, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, ditch, duck*, eclipse, ensconce, go into hiding, go underground, harbor, hold back, hole up, hush up, keep from, keep secret, lie low, lock up, mask, not give away, not tell, obscure, occult, plant*, protect, put out of the way, reserve, salt away, screen, secrete, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, smuggle, squirrel, stifle, stow away, suppress, take cover, tuck away, veil, withhold |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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antipudic, apatetic, armor, conchiferous, conchitic, conchological, cortical, covered, covering, cutaneous, cuticular, cyanotic, decorticated, deric, dermal, desquamate, doughfaced, echinulate, enameled, encrusted, encuirassed, flue, furfuraceous, galericulate, imbricate, imbricated, incanous, ironclad, lanuginous, lepidote, lined, loricated, lutose, overlaid, pastose, plumulaceous, procryptic, rorulent, scaled, scaly, scurfy, skinny, squamaceous, squamate, squamous, stegocephalic, stimulose, strigillose, stupulose, superincumbent, superjacent, tegumentary, tomentose, under cover
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| Concept: | Ambush. [Means of concealment]. |
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-nouns
hiding place; secret place, secret drawer; recess, hold, holes and corners; closet, crypt, adytum, abditory, oubliette., ambush, ambuscade; stalking horse; lurking hole, lurking place; secret path, back stairs; retreat (refuge)., screen, cover, shade, blinker; veil, curtain, blind, cloak, cloud., mask, visor, vizor, disguise, masquerade dress, domino., pitfall (source of danger); trap (snare).
-verbs
lie in ambush (hide oneself); lie in wait for; set a trap for (deceive); ambuscade, ambush.
-adverbs
aux aguets.
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| Concept: | Concealment. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
concealment; hiding; occultation, mystification., seal of secrecy; screen; disguise; masquerade; masked battery; hiding place; cryptography, steganography; freemasonry., stealth, stealthiness; obreption; slyness (cunning)., latitancy, latitation; seclusion; privacy, secrecy, secretness; incognita., reticence; reserve; mental reserve, reservation; arriere pensee, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence (taciturnity); suppression of truth; underhand dealing; closeness, secretiveness; mystery., latency; snake in the grass; secret; stowaway.
-verbs
conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle up., cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper., keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore., keep a secret, keep one's own counsel; hold one's tongue (silence) [more]; make no sign, not let it go further; not breathe a word, not breathe a syllable about; not let the right hand know what the left is doing; hide one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin., keep in the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance; blind, blind the eyes; blindfold, hoodwink, mystify; puzzle (render uncertain); bamboozle (deceive)., be concealed; suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush; seclude oneself; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt.
-adjectives
concealed; hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous., behind a screen; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapt in clouds; invisible; buried, underground, perdu; secluded., undisclosed, untold [more]; covert (latent); mysterious (unintelligible)., irrevealable, inviolable; confidential; esoteric; not to be spoken of., obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking; surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly (cunning). [more]; secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, close as wax; taciturn.
-adverbs
secretly; in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners; in the dark, jnuis clausiss, with closed doors, a huis clos; hugger mugger, a la derobee; under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table; sub rosa, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine., behind the veil; beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil; hid from mortal vision; into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery., in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence; confidentially; between ourselves, between you and me; entre nous, inter nos, under the seal of secrecy; a couvert., underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night; stealthily; behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen [more]; incognito; in camera.
-phrases
it must go no further, it will go no further; "tell it not in Gath," nobody the wiser; alitur vitium vivitque tegendo; "let it be tenable in your silence still" [Hamlet].
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| Antonyms: | disclosure |
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