conceal
- to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- to keep secret; to prevent or avoid disclosing or divulging: to conceal one's identity by using a false name.
Origin of conceal
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veiled, buried, guarded, screened, masked, obscure, obscured, secreted, enshrouded, shrouded, covert, hush-hush, incognito, inconspicuous, privy, recondite, ulterior, unseen, incog, perduExamples from the Web for concealed
Contemporary Examples of concealed
Kim Novak's heavy legs were concealed and all logic left on the cutting room floor.
The training hours should jump to 80 hours for a concealed carry permit.
He also fell in love with an Iroquois girl and concealed her within his home, under the care of one of his slaves.
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October 4, 2014
Smiley, by contrast, knew exactly what mistakes he was making as he committed and concealed them.
Typically most women carry their concealed firearms in their purses, the main target of thieves.
Historical Examples of concealed
Friends had concealed her, and all had been on the watch for Moses.
Harriet, The Moses of Her PeopleSarah H. Bradford
These concealed meetings, once begun, became an absorbing excitement.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
The truth could not be concealed, nor the contemplation of it avoided.
Fragments from The Journal of a Solitary ManNathaniel Hawthorne
So we concealed ourselves on a little bluff to the right and waited.
A Woman TenderfootGrace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
She would have concealed from him her illness and her poverty.
Night and Morning, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
conceal
- to keep from discovery; hide
- to keep secret