| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  h d |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: hid ( h d), hid·den ( hd n) or hid, hid·ing, hides
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To put or keep out of sight; secrete. 2. To prevent the disclosure or recognition of; conceal: tried to hide the facts. 3. To cut off from sight; cover up: Clouds hid the stars. 4. To avert (one's gaze), especially in shame or grief. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To keep oneself out of sight. 2. To seek refuge. | | PHRASAL VERB: | hide out To be in hiding, as from a pursuer: The gangsters hid out in a remote cabin until it was safe to return to the city. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English hiden, from Old English h dan. See (s)keu- in Appendix I. | | SYNONYMS: | hide1, conceal, secrete2, cache, screen, bury, cloak These verbs mean to keep from the sight or knowledge of others. Hide and conceal are the most general and are often used interchangeably: I used a throw rug to hide (or conceal) the stain on the carpet. I smiled to hide (or conceal) my hurt feelings. Secrete and cache involve concealment in a place unknown to others; cache often implies storage for later use: The lioness secreted her cubs in the tall grass. The mountain climbers cached their provisions in a cave. To screen is to shield or block from the view of others: Tall shrubs screen the actor's home from the curious. Bury implies covering over: The pirates buried the treasure. The author buried the point of the article in a mass of details. To cloak is to conceal something by masking or disguising it: “On previously cloaked issues, the Soviets have suddenly become forthcoming” (John McLaughlin).See also synonyms at block.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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