Synonyms for conceal
kənˈsilcon·ceal

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1. concealverb

   Synonyms:
   obfuscate, hide, secrete

   Antonyms:
   reveal, admit, uncover

2. concealverb

   To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

   He tried to conceal the truth about his health.

   Synonyms:
   hide, obfuscate, secrete

   Antonyms:
   admit, reveal, uncover

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1. conceal

   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, cloak, 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

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1. conceal

   Synonyms:
   hide, secrete, disguise, keep secret, dissemble, screen, suppress

   Antonyms:
   reveal, manifest, exhibit, avow, confess, expose, promulgate, publish, divulge

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1. hide, concealverb

   prevent from being seen or discovered

   "Muslim women hide their faces"; "hide the money"

   Synonyms:
   cover, hide out, enshroud, obliterate, hold in, blot out, hide, hold back, shroud, veil, obscure

2. conceal, hold back, hold inverb

   hold back; keep from being perceived by others

   "She conceals her anger well"

   Synonyms:
   arrest, keep, restrain, hold back, confine, hold off, moderate, hold in, hold, check, retain, contain, keep back, forbear, enclose, wait, stop, hide, curb, control, turn back

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1. choke back (verb)

   fail to control one’s emotions

   they choked back tears (feelings; anger; disappointment, etc.)

   Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

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1. concealverb

   Synonyms:
   hide, secrete, cover, screen, bury, cover up

2. concealverb

   Synonyms:
   disguise, dissemble, keep secret

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1. List of paraphrases for "conceal":

   hide, disguise, mask, obscure, concealment, dissemble, camouflage, bury

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1. Russ Rader:

   Unfortunately, we have no evidence that these laws reduce crashes. one theory is that drivers -- these laws are well publicized -- may be trying to conceal what they're doing so they're not spotted by a police officer. So they move the device down below window level, thus taking their eyes off the road.

2. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

3. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

4. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi:

   There is no such group there, it is state propaganda, state troops have suffered heavy losses and they are trying to create rifts among the Taliban to conceal their failures.

5. Tom Fuentes:

   With a conceal and carry permit, you are responsible for that firearm. With a drone, it's out of your control and someone could get their hands on it -- that's extremely dangerous.