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| Main Entry: | conceal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide, disguise |
| Synonyms: | beard, burrow, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, couch, cover, dissemble, ditch, duck, ensconce, enshroud, harbor, hole up*, lurk, mask, masquerade, obscure, plant*, screen, secrete, shelter, skulk, slink, sneak, stow, veil, wrap, cover up, keep dark, keep secret, lie low, put in a hole, stash, stay out of sight, tuck away |
| Antonyms: | disclose, divulge, expose, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover, lay bare, let out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | belie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | color, conceal, disguise, distort, falsify, garble, hide, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp, give the lie to, gloss over, miscolor, trump up |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
| Main Entry: | black out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose consciousness |
| Synonyms: | batten, conceal, cut off, darken, eclipse, eradicate, erase, extinguish, faint, hold back, keel over, obfuscate, pass out, quash, rub out, shade, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, suppress, swoon, cover up, cross out, delete; cover, go out like a light, make dark, zonk out |
| Antonyms: | add, uncover, pencil in |
| Main Entry: | blanket |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover |
| Synonyms: | bury, cloak, cloud, coat, conceal, crown, eclipse, envelop, hide, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, suppress, surround, overspread |
| Antonyms: | uncover, lay bare |
| Main Entry: | block out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | try to forget |
| Synonyms: | close, conceal, cover, hide, obscure, obstruct, screen, shroud, shut out, shut off |
| Antonyms: | recall, remember |
| Main Entry: | cache |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide a supply of something |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, bury, conceal, cover, ditch, duck, ensconce, maintain, park, plant, put away, save, screen, secrete, squirrel away*, store, lay away, put in the hole, squirrel, stash, stash away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | camouflage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise, cover |
| Synonyms: | beard*, becloud, cloak, conceal, deceive, dim, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, hide, mask, obfuscate, obscure, screen, veil, befog, cover up, throw on makeup |
| Antonyms: | reveal, show, uncover |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | censor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forbid; ban; selectively remove |
| Synonyms: | abridge, black out*, blacklist, bleach, conceal, control, cork*, criticize, cut, decontaminate, delete, edit, examine, excise, expurgate, inspect, launder*, narrow, oversee, purge, purify, repress, restrain, restrict, review, revile, sanitize, squelch, sterilize, strike out, suppress, withhold, bleep, blue-pencil*, bowdlerize, clean up, drop the iron curtain, exscind, prevent publication, put the lid on, refuse transmission, scissor out, supervise communications |
| Notes: | to censor is to disallow portions or the entireties of books, plays, etc. on the grounds that they transgress propriety, 'to scrutinize, revise, or cut,' expurgate or suppress; to censure is to criticize vehemently or harshly, or condemn |
| Antonyms: | allow, approve, endorse, permit, sanction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cloak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise |
| Synonyms: | blanket, camouflage, coat, conceal, cover, curtain, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, hide, mask, obscure, pretext, screen, shroud, veil |
| Antonyms: | reveal, uncover, uncloak |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrap, hide |
| Synonyms: | blanket, bury, cache, camouflage, canopy, cap, carpet, cloak, clothe, coat, conceal, crown, curtain, daub, disguise, dress, eclipse, enclose, enfold, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, hood, house, invest, layer, mantle, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, protect, put on, screen, secrete, shade, shield, shroud, superimpose, surface, veil, board up, bush up, cover up, do on the sly, encase, overspread, set on, stash, superpose |
| Antonyms: | lay out, reveal, uncover, unwrap, lay bare |
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mask; misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge*, garble, hide, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on an act*, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, whitewash*, cover up, doctor up, gloss over, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, wear cheaters |
| Antonyms: | expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissemble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise, pretend |
| Synonyms: | affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, dissimulate, double-talk*, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, hide, let on*, mask, pass, play possum*, pussyfoot*, put on an act*, sham*, shroud, signify, simulate, stonewall*, whitewash*, cover up, doublespeak, four-flush, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, shuck and jive |
| Antonyms: | admit, allow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | encode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encrypt |
| Synonyms: | cipher, conceal, cryptograph, make secret, put into code |
| Main Entry: | ensconce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide; tuck away |
| Synonyms: | bury, cache, conceal, cover, ditch, establish, fix, install, locate, nestle, place, plant, protect, screen, seat, secrete, set, settle, shelter, shield, situate, station, curl up, snuggle up, stash |
| Antonyms: | reveal, uncover, unveil, take out |
| Main Entry: | enshroud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover |
| Synonyms: | cloak, conceal, hide, mask, pall, shroud |
| Main Entry: | envelop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encase, hide |
| Synonyms: | blanket, cage, cloak, conceal, contain, coop, corral, cover, drape, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, engulf, enshroud, fence, gird, girdle, guard, hem, immure, invest, obscure, overlay, pen, protect, roll, sheathe, shield, shroud, superimpose, surround, swaddle, swathe, veil, wrap, wrap up, enwrap, overspread, shut in |
| Antonyms: | free, open, release, uncover, unwrap, let go, let loose |
| Main Entry: | evade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get away from |
| Synonyms: | avoid, baffle, balk, bypass, cavil, circumvent, conceal, confuse, cop out, deceive, decline, dodge, double, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, eschew, fence, fend off*, flee, fly, fudge*, hedge, hide, lie, parry, pretend, prevaricate, pussyfoot, put off, shift, shirk, shuck, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, tergiversate, trick, waffle*, weasel*, beat around bush, beg the question, get around, give the runaround, keep distance, lay low*, lead on a merry chase, pass up, slip out, sneak away, steer clear of |
| Antonyms: | face, meet, take on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harbor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide, protect |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, board, bunk, conceal, defend, domicile, entertain, guard, hold back, house, lodge, nurse, nurture, put up, quarter, relieve, safeguard, screen, secrete, secure, shelter, shield, suppress, withhold, provide refuge |
| Antonyms: | eject, uncover, let out |
| Main Entry: | hush up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep secret |
| Synonyms: | conceal, cover, smother, squash, stifle, suppress, burke, cover up, keep dark, sit on |
| Antonyms: | reveal, tell |
| Main Entry: | mask |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise |
| Synonyms: | beard, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover, defend, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, front, guard, hide, obscure, protect, safeguard, screen, secrete, shield, veil, cover up |
| Antonyms: | reveal, uncover, unmask |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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