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Synonyms for cloak
kloʊkcloak

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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.

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

    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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. cloak

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

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

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. camouflage

    a thing that hides or covers sb/sth

    they left under the cloak of darkness

    Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cloaknoun

    Synonyms:
    mantle

  2. cloaknoun

    Synonyms:
    mask, veil, cover, blind

  3. cloakverb

    Synonyms:
    mask, hide, veil, cover

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cloaknoun

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

  2. cloakverb

    Synonyms:
    conceal, mask, hide, veil, disguise

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "cloak":

    cape, coat, obscuration, mantle, tablecloth, guise, tux, robe, veil, pretext

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How to use cloak in a sentence?

  1. Curt Viebranz:

    While they may not have removed the uniform, the theory was to make sure that nobody was openly showing any of their uniform, so they may have come, changed, or they may have put on a cloak that covered all of their insignias and their battle uniform.

  2. Mahatma Gandhi:

    It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  3. Sally Thompson:

    In Burma, everything was cloak and dagger, you didn't leave a paper trail, for your own protection. You didn't talk about things openly, you didn't share information because you couldn't trust anybody.

  4. Ron DeSantis:

    I believe woke ideology is pernicious. I believe what’s at stake is not just ‘My policies are good,’ we should not all be suffering under the cloak of wokeness. … This issue with Disney is a good example of that. … They were basically a law unto themselves, and they got away with it for a long time because they were so powerful. They were the 800-pound gorilla, but they made the mistake of trying to stick their nose into sensitive matters involving children, involving education, and involving family.

  5. President Trump:

    Today, I have a message for those open border activists who cloak themselves in the rhetoric of social justice : Your policies are not just, your policies are cruel and evil.


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