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| Main Entry: | screen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection used in or as furniture, motion picture display |
| Synonyms: | awning, canopy, cloak, concealment, cover, covering, curtain, envelope, guard, hedge, mantle, mask, net, partition, security, shade, shelter, shield, shroud, veil, divider |
| Main Entry: | screen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide, protect |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, blind, block out, bulwark, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, close, conceal, cover, defend, disguise, ensconce, fend, guard, mask, obscure, obstruct, safeguard, seclude, secrete, secure, separate, shade, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, shut out, shutter, umbrage, veil, cover up, shut off, stash, wall off |
| Antonyms: | open, reveal, uncover, lay open |
| Main Entry: | screen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | examine and choose |
| Synonyms: | cull, eliminate, evaluate, extract, filter, gauge, grade, process, riddle, scan, select, separate, sieve, sift, sort, winnow, pick out |
| Main Entry: | buffer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | safeguard |
| Synonyms: | bulwark, cushion, defense, fender, intermediary, screen, shield, shock absorber, bumper |
| 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: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise |
| Synonyms: | beard*, blind, cloak, concealment, cover, deceit, front, guise, mask, masquerade, mimicry, paint, red herring*, screen, shade, shroud, veil, coverup, deceptive marking, dissimulation, faking, false appearance, masking, plain brown wrapper, protective coloring, smokescreen |
* = 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: | 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: | 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: | crossing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pathway to traverse larger path |
| Synonyms: | bridge, crossroad, exchange, grating, interchange, intersection, junction, loop, network, overpass, passage, screen, traverse, cloverleaf, crosswalk, crossway, decussation, grade crossing, gridiron, traversal, underpass |
| Main Entry: | curtain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | window covering |
| Synonyms: | Venetian blind, blind, decoration, drape, film, hanging, rag, screen, shade, shield, shroud, shutter, veil, drapery, jalousie, oleo, portiere, roller, valance |
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering, makeup for deception |
| Synonyms: | beard, blind, camouflage, charade, cloak, color, coloring, concealment, costume, counterfeit, cover-up, dress, facade, face, false front*, front*, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pseudonym, red herring*, screen, semblance, smoke screen*, trickery, veil, veneer, dissimulation, faking, fig leaf, get-up, pretentiousness, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | expurgate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | censor, cut |
| Synonyms: | blip*, cleanse, decontaminate, purge, purify, sanitize, screen, scrub*, squash, sterilize, bleep, bleep out, blue pencil, bowdlerize, clean up, lustrate |
| Antonyms: | allow, permit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defend |
| Synonyms: | bulwark, cover, dodge, guard, oppose, parry, protect, repel, resist, safeguard, screen, secure, shield |
| Antonyms: | surrender, yield |
| Main Entry: | fender |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece protecting part of a vehicle |
| Synonyms: | apron, buffer, cover, curb, cushion, frame, guard, mask, protector, screen, shield, ward, bumper, mudguard, splashboard |
| Main Entry: | filter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | separate to refine; seep through |
| Synonyms: | clarify, clean, distill, drain, dribble, escape, exude, leak, ooze, penetrate, percolate, permeate, purify, refine, screen, sieve, sift, strain, trickle, winnow, filtrate, metastasize, osmose, soak through |
| Antonyms: | collect, combine |
| Main Entry: | guard |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | protect, watch |
| Synonyms: | attend, baby-sit, bulwark, chaperon, chaperone, conduct, convoy, cover, defend, escort, fend, keep, lookout, mind, observe, oversee, patrol, police*, preserve, safeguard, save, screen, secure, shelter, shepherd, shield, stonewall*, superintend, supervise, tend, cover up, keep an eye on, keep in view, keep under surveillance, look after, ride shotgun for, see after, shotgun |
| Antonyms: | disregard, forget, ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hedge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary, obstacle, especially one made of plants |
| Synonyms: | barrier, bush, enclosure, fence, guard, hurdle, protection, screen, shrubbery, thicket, hedgerow, quickset, windbreak |
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