hiding
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈhaɪdɪŋ/
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ocultación
- Jerome scrambled down from the table and ran to his hiding place behind the couch.
- go into hiding
- come out of hiding
- a hiding place
That's your way of kind of hiding from yourself, your own narcissism.
- That's your way of kind of hiding from yourself, your own narcissism.
- The default setting for hiding away are social problems.
Examples
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The children found a perfect hiding spot in the bushes during the game of hide-and-seek.
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Just promise me that you will go to one of these hiding places now.
Fiction book (1991) -
This is quite a hiding place.
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It's not a bad hiding place.
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This is my secret hiding spot.
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There's probably a thousand hiding places up here.
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I waited a while before leaving my hiding place and pretended I had just arrived.
Fiction book (1993) -
Jack waits for a boy to leave, then goes to the secret hiding place under the sink.
Fiction book (1992) -
Leaphorn returned them to their hiding place in the bottom drawer.
Fiction book (1993) -
I think Raphael is still around, but he's in hiding somewhere on the East Side.
Synonyms
165
4.4
Keeping information hidden from other people
117
6.5
Quiet movement to avoid being seen or heard
26
4.6
A way of hiding something so it is not easily seen
8
5.0
Keeping something hidden or secret
7
4.8
Objects that hide parts of a stage from the audience
1
3.5
Plants or structures that block the view to give privacy
1
5.3
An act of hiding something so people do not know about it
1
7.8
A state in which something is out of sight and hard to notice or understand
1
8.2
Something that stops you from seeing or understanding
The state of being secret to avoid being noticed
Being secret so other people do not know about it
Habit of doing things in a hidden way
Doing something in secret to avoid being noticed
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Etymology
Hiding comes from the old English verb hide, which meant 'to put out of sight', plus the ending -ing that makes a noun for the action or state. So hiding is 'the act of being kept out of view', which explains why it means staying secret or out of sight to avoid being found.