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Antonyms for cloak
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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cloak

    Hide is the general term, including all the rest, signifying to put out of sight or beyond ready observation or approach; a thing may be hidden by intention, by accident, or by the imperfection of the faculties of the one from whom it is hidden; in their games, children hide the slipper, or hide themselves from each other; a man unconsciously hides a picture from another by standing before it, or hides a thing from himself by laying something else over it. Even an unconscious object may hide another; as, a cloud hides the sun, or a building hides some part of the prospect by intervening between it and the observer's position. As an act of persons, to conceal is always intentional; one may hide his face in anger, grief, or abstraction; he conceals his face when he fears recognition. A house is hidden by foliage; the bird's nest is artfully concealed. Secrete is a stronger word than conceal, and is used chiefly of such material objects as may be separated from the person, or from their ordinary surroundings, and put in unlooked-for places; a man conceals a scar on his face, but does not secrete it; a thief secretes stolen goods; an officer may also be said to secrete himself to watch the thief. A thing is covered by putting something over or around it, whether by accident or design; it is screened by putting something before it, always with some purpose of protection from observation, inconvenience, attack, censure, etc. In the figurative use, a person may hide honorable feelings; he conceals an evil or hostile intent. Anything which is effectually covered and hidden under any mass or accumulation is buried. Money is buried in the ground; a body is buried in the sea; a paper is buried under other documents. Whatever is buried is hidden or concealed; but there are many ways of hiding or concealing a thing without burying it. So a person may be covered with wraps, and not buried under them. Bury may be used of any object, entomb and inter only of a dead body. Figuratively, one may be said to be buried in business, in study, etc. Compare IMMERSE; PALLIATE.

    Antonyms:
    admit, advertise, avow, betray, confess, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, exhibit, exhume, expose, lay bare, lay open, make known, reveal, manifest, promulgate, publish, raise, show, tell, uncover, unmask, unveil

    Synonyms:
    bury, conceal, cover, disguise, dissemble, entomb, hide, inter, mask, overwhelm, screen, secrete, suppress, veil

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. cloak

    Antonyms:
    exhibit, propound, promulge, portray, aggravate, expose, demonstrate, reveal

    Synonyms:
    conceal, disguise, mask, veil, hide, cover, palliate, screen, mitigate, extenuate

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Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 2 votes

  1. cloaknoun

    anything that covers or conceals

  2. cloakverb

    a loose outer garment

  3. dissemble, cloak, maskverb

    hide under a false appearance

    "He masked his disappointment"

    Synonyms:
    act, feign, affect, pretend, dissemble, disguise, drape, block out, sham, robe, mask, clothe

  4. clothe, cloak, drape, robeverb

    cover as if with clothing

    "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees"

    Synonyms:
    tog, robe, garment, adorn, apparel, dissemble, clothe, invest, mask, vest, drape, habilitate, garb, dress, fit out, enclothe, raiment

  5. cloakverb

    cover with or as if with a cloak

    "cloaked monks"

    Synonyms:
    drape, dissemble, robe, mask, clothe

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  1. cloaknoun

    Synonyms:
    mantle, coat, capuchin, dolman, palladium, pelisse, pretext, blind, mask

  2. cloakverb

    Synonyms:
    conceal, mask, hide, veil, disguise

How to use cloak in a sentence?

  1. The President:

    President Trump is trying cloak fair housing under this guise of keeping the suburbs safe from' those low income people', it's almost as if President Trump's assuming that all black people live in low-income house or that low-income housing is just for black people.

  2. Samuel Johnson:

    Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.

  3. Richard Lowenstein:

    I met a person who was completely humble and shy and just quite normal in real life but on stage would put on this rock star cloak and become this ... long-haired sex god.

  4. Albert Einstein:

    He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  5. Jay Bender:

    There is an alternative to the imposition of a cloak of secrecy over what has happened in Charleston.

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