conceal
[kuh n-seel]
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verb (used with object)
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
1275–1325; Middle English conselen, concelen < Anglo-French conceler < Latin concēlāre, equivalent to con- con- + cēlāre to hide (akin to hull1, Greek koleón scabbard (see Coleoptera); cf. occult)
Synonyms for conceal
1. See hide1.
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Calypso is the concealer, she who conceals spirit in the jungle of nature.
Homer's OdysseyDenton J. Snider
Her name means the concealer, concealed herself in that lone sea-closed island, and concealing others.
Homer's OdysseyDenton J. Snider
Not, as vulgarly thought, the concealer of Ulysses, but the great concealer—the hidden power of natural things.
Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5)John Ruskin
Directly he marched off it would be his terrible foe, the host and concealer of a thousand ambushes.
Cupid in AfricaP. C. Wren
conceal
verb (tr)
Word Origin for conceal
C14: from Old French conceler, from Latin concēlāre, from com- (intensive) + cēlāre to hide
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