to conceal

Examples

• All

• She tried to conceal her surprise when she received the unexpected gift.

• This is going to even out my skin tone and conceal a lot of my blemishes.

• It's amazing how easy it is to conceal small things.

• There were lots of ways to conceal these cameras, and we'll use them all.

• It's hard to carry, hard to conceal.

  Rampage (1987)

• "It's okay," Christine said, obviously struggling to conceal her own fear from her daughter.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Let's try to conceal these scars.

  Edward Avila

• The spread of the Internet could make it harder for autocrats to conceal government waste and corruption.

  Academic text (2011)

• If he had a fortune, he carefully concealed it and lived off his salary.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Nautical rope was cut to length to conceal the seams where the panels met.

  Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

H

to hide

vsto conceal

∞ 1.0

To keep something so others cannot see or understand it

keeps things secret to prevent discovery rather than only blocking sight

C

to cover up

vsto conceal

314 3.7

To hide something so people cannot see or find out about it

is the simple verb for keeping things secret or out of sight generally

B

to bury

vsto conceal

254 1.6

To cover something completely so it cannot be seen

means physical complete placement under material rather than general secrecy

H

to hold back

vsto conceal

108 4.2

Keep yourself from showing feelings or telling others

is about keeping things unknown or not found rather than merely not expressing them

O

to obscure

vsto conceal

86 7.0

Make something hard to see or understand

keeps things fully secret or out of view rather than merely unclear

K

to keep a secret

vsto conceal

76 2.6

To not tell anyone private information

applies to keeping information secret, not physical objects or places

V

to veil

vsto conceal

24 5.0

To cover something so others cannot easily see or understand it

is used for both physical screening and figurative masking, not only secrecy

B

to blot out

vsto conceal

8 5.4

Hide something so you cannot see it or remember it

keeps things secret so others cannot find or discover them, not erase

E

to enshroud

vsto conceal

• Literature

1 8.2

To cover something completely so you cannot see or understand it

focuses on complete placement that also makes meaning unclear

S

to secrete

vsto conceal

1 8.1

Hide something carefully where others cannot find it

keeps things secret but not necessarily with safekeeping as the purpose

Antonyms

R

to reveal

∞ 2.3

Show something that was hidden or secret

D

to disclose

234 4.1

To tell people information that was secret

How Hidden

to bury

254 1.6

to secrete

1 8.1

to conceal

282 3.7

to cover

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology