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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attempt to conceal embarrassing or scandalous information |
| Synonyms: | burial, camouflage, closeting, complicity, concealment, conspiracy, disguising, dissimulation, evasion, front, hush-up, masking, placing under wraps, pretense, seal of secrecy, smoke-screen, veil of secrecy, whitewash |
| Main Entry: | black out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose consciousness |
| Synonyms: | batten, conceal, cover up, cross out, cut off, darken, delete; cover, eclipse, eradicate, erase, extinguish, faint, go out like a light, hold back, keel over, make dark, obfuscate, pass out, quash, rub out, shade, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, suppress, swoon, zonk out |
| Antonyms: | add, pencil in, uncover |
| Main Entry: | bottle up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold in check |
| Synonyms: | box up, bring to naught, check, collar, contain, coop up, cork, corner, cover up, cramp, curb, enclose, entrap, hold back, hold down, hold in, keep back, keep feeling inside oneself, keep secret, repress, restrain, restrict, shut in, suppress, trap |
| Antonyms: | confide, reveal, tell |
| Main Entry: | bury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lay to rest after death |
| Synonyms: | consign to grave, cover up, deposit, embalm, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, hold last rites for, hold services for, inearth, inhume, inter, inurn, lay out, mummify, plant*, put away, put six feet under, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb |
| Notes: | a berry is a small, juicy fruit; bury is to place in the ground |
| Antonyms: | dig out, disinter, uncover |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal, cover |
| Synonyms: | cache, cover up, ensconce, enshroud, hide, occult, plant, screen, secrete, shroud, stash, stow away |
| Notes: | a berry is a small, juicy fruit; bury is to place in the ground |
| Antonyms: | dig out, reveal, uncover |
| Main Entry: | camouflage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise, cover |
| Synonyms: | beard, becloud, befog, cloak, conceal, cover up, deceive, dim, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, hide, mask, obfuscate, obscure, screen, throw on makeup, veil |
| Antonyms: | reveal, show, uncover |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | artifice, baloney, bamboozlement, bill of goods, bunco, chicanery, con, con game, cover up, cozening, deceit, deception, dirty pool, dirty trick, dodge, double-dealing, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, fix, flimflam, frame, fraud, gyp, hanky-panky, hoax, hoaxing, humbug, hustle, imposture, jazz, jive, plant, put-on, racket, rip-off, run around, scam, sell, shady deal, sham, shell game, snow job, spoof, sting, stunt, swindle, trickery, whitewash, wrong |
| Main Entry: | conceal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide, disguise |
| Synonyms: | beard, burrow, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, couch, cover, cover up, dissemble, ditch, duck, ensconce, enshroud, harbor, hole up, keep dark, keep secret, lie low, lurk, mask, masquerade, obscure, plant*, put in a hole, screen, secrete, shelter, skulk, slink, sneak, stash, stay out of sight, stow, tuck away, veil, wrap |
| Antonyms: | disclose, divulge, expose, lay bare, let out, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrap, hide |
| Synonyms: | blanket, board up, bury, bush up, cache, camouflage, canopy, cap, carpet, cloak, clothe, coat, conceal, cover up, crown, curtain, daub, disguise, do on the sly, dress, eclipse, encase, enclose, enfold, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, hood, house, invest, layer, mantle, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, overspread, protect, put on, screen, secrete, set on, shade, shield, shroud, stash, superimpose, superpose, surface, veil |
| Antonyms: | lay bare, lay out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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