Synonyms for cloak
kloʊkcloak

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 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 WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Covering

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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 SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cloaknoun

   Synonyms:
   mantle

2. cloaknoun

   Synonyms:
   mask, veil, cover, blind

3. cloakverb

   Synonyms:
   mask, hide, veil, cover

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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 databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "cloak":

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

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1. William Proxmire:

   Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

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. Victor Hugo:

   I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

4. Jay Bender:

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

5. 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.