to camouflage
23
5.9
- verb
- /ˈkæməˌflɑːʒ/
:
camuflar
- To catch the prey, the hunter must camouflage himself against the natural surroundings.
- well-camouflaged
- efforts to camouflage
Now they're actually involved in manufacturing fake pain, pain medication and camouflaging or, or creating their own packaged pills.
- Now they're actually involved in manufacturing fake pain, pain medication and camouflaging or, or creating their own packaged pills.
- And unless you're playing online, you, you need to be able to camouflage your nervousness, your, your level of affection for your hand.
Examples
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Beyond the hacienda, we see a military compound containing tents and three heavily camouflaged helicopter shelters.
Fiction book (2002) -
Lila pulls off the road, drives to a place where the car will be camouflaged, and parks.
Fiction book (2001) -
I lie perfectly still, as if I could camouflage myself in the empty room.
Fiction book (2002) -
We can if we're camouflaged.
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Dust had almost perfectly camouflaged the truck, but not quite well enough.
Academic text (2002) -
But really, what I'm trying to do here is just to camouflage this a little bit so that it doesn't look so damaged.
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Some marine creatures camouflaged in their environment.
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We will remove the iron stove... the one that was camouflaging the trap door.
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Japanese snipers expertly camouflaged in the dense brush take shots at the Marines.
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The soldier wore a uniform that helped him camouflage with the trees and bushes around him.
Synonyms
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1.0
To keep something so others cannot see or understand it
314
3.7
To hide something so people cannot see or find out about it
282
3.7
To hide something so others cannot see or find it
111
3.7
To cover part of something to hide or protect it
63
5.1
To cover something so it is hard to see or understand
38
6.0
To cover something completely, often with a cloth
24
5.0
To cover something so others cannot easily see or understand it
20
3.7
Be similar to people or things around you so you are not noticed
1
8.2
To cover something completely so you cannot see or understand it
Antonyms
How Hidden
282
3.7
86
7.0
23
5.9
111
3.7
165
3.4
20
3.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
Camouflage comes from the French camoufler 'to disguise', first used for hiding soldiers and equipment from the enemy. So to camouflage something is to hide it by making it look like the things around it.