conceal
verb (used with object)
to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight.
half-concealing
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a word derived from
conceal.
Example Sentences
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He had a fondness for half-concealing his cleverest effects, so that you might have to read a poem two or three times before you detect the rhyme of "dirigible" with "unmarriageable" or "rosy" with "Mafiosi."
From Time Magazine Archive
This at length was able to take its free course when the following picture presented itself, where the Kammerjunker, as the Somnambule, his hand half-concealing the extinguished light, showed himself at the open window.
From O. T. a Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Paresi approached him, half-concealing a small metal tube in his hand.
From Breaking Point by James E. Gunn
Nehushta turned and found herself face to face with Atossa, who stood before her, wrapped in a dark mantle, a white veil of Indian gauze wound about her head, and half-concealing her face.
From Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Mountains whose sides were flushed with red, but whose crowns were bald, rose as a pinnacle, half-concealing another pinnacle behind it.
From The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
