Synonyms for cloak
kloʊk

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. cloak(noun)

   anything that covers or conceals

2. cloak(verb)

   a loose outer garment

3. dissemble, cloak, mask(verb)

   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, robe(verb)

   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. cloak(verb)

   cover with or as if with a cloak

   "cloaked monks"

   Synonyms:
   drape, dissemble, robe, mask, clothe

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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 Antonyms(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. cloak

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

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

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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 Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. cloak(n.)

   Synonyms:
   mantle

2. cloak(n.)

   Synonyms:
   mask, veil, cover, blind

3. cloak(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   mask, hide, veil, cover

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. cloak(n)

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

2. cloak(v)

   Synonyms:
   conceal, mask, hide, veil, disguise

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "cloak":

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

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1. Marge Piercy:

   [Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

2. Daniel Anderson:

   What we developed is basically a new material that acts like an invisibility cloak. It coats the cells but allows them to function and live but protects them from the immune system.

3. 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.

4. Christian Baldauf:

   Who can understand that a rejected asylum seeker who has been tried several times for various violent crimes cannot be deported, but the same man manages to travel back to his home country in a cloak and dagger operation?

5. The Rev. Joseph Lowery:

   We had been through sit-ins and kneel-ins where we had been beat up and locked up and cussed out and locked out, it was a milestone, a watershed. It helped America take off the cloak of official segregation.

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