to cloak
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5.1
- verb
- /kloʊk/
:
cubrir
- He tried to cloak his true feelings behind a cheerful smile.
- cloaked in the guise
- cloak practices
- cloak self-interest
They believe that migration is positive, but that migration is cloaking something else.
- They believe that migration is positive, but that migration is cloaking something else.
- So her group would get a leg up on the competing contract to study how those objects cloak or disappear and reappear.
- So I think a lot of the therapy speak and they're kind of feminist language is, is cloaking this deep fear of vulnerability.
- I'm just, I'm over these women cloaking themselves in some sort of Gloria Steinem odor as though there are champions.
- What are you going to do if one day like I was just like cloaking people?
Examples
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The fog began to cloak the landscape, making everything hard to see.
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Next in the grand spectacle came a thousand priests cloaked in alabaster.
Academic text (2000) -
But please do not let ambition cloak and trick you into thinking you can do the wrong things.
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Yet today, their history remains cloaked under a shadow of legend.
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Nor are you going to protect the republic by cloaking your spark of light.
Academic text (2018) -
Paris laid out for him like a jewel, cloaked in mystery, promising adventure and romance.
Fiction book (1993) -
Aye, they are insults; you just cloak them in your gentle guile.
Fiction book (1994) -
"The human dilemma is as it has always been, "and we solve nothing by cloaking ourselves in technological glory."
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Perhaps you feel the rush of cool air passing, the touch of a material cloaking your skin, a tingling or persistent itch.
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The setting sun draped the Herodian stones in soft pink and cloaked the worshipers in dappled gray.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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1.0
To keep something so others cannot see or understand it
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3.7
To hide something so people cannot see or find out about it
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3.7
To hide something so others cannot see or find it
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1.6
To cover something completely so it cannot be seen
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3.7
To cover part of something to hide or protect it
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4.3
To hang or cover something loosely with cloth
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6.0
To cover something completely, often with a cloth
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5.0
To cover something so others cannot easily see or understand it
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3.2
To put clothes on someone or cover their body with clothes
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4.6
To cover completely so it cannot be seen, often by water or strong feeling
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9.1
To hide true feelings or intentions by pretending to feel something else
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5.4
Hide something so you cannot see it or remember it
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8.2
To cover something completely so you cannot see or understand it
1
7.2
To cover something completely, like fog or snow
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8.1
Hide something carefully where others cannot find it
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9.5
To hide your true feelings or plans with a false expression
Antonyms
Compounds
How Concealing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cloak as a verb means to cover or hide, and it comes from the name of the garment that hides the body. So to cloak an action or feeling is to hide it from view.