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Synonyms for conceal
kənˈsilcon·ceal

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Wiktionary4.5 / 4 votes

  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

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 4 votes

  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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 2 votes

  1. conceal

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

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

Princeton's WordNet2.5 / 4 votes

  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

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  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  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. concealverb

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

  2. concealverb

    Synonyms:
    disguise, dissemble, keep secret

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "conceal":

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

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How to use conceal in a sentence?

  1. Seth Rogen:

    What I can say is that I despise abuse and harassment, and I would never cover or conceal the actions of someone doing it, or knowingly put someone in a situation where they were around someone like that.

  2. Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass":

    Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

  3. Russ Rader:

    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.

  4. Adam Schiff:

    This action is long overdue and follows an inexplicable series of events in which the White House played a role in selectively and surreptitiously providing the documents to our Chairman (Nunes), the White House has yet to explain why it attempted to conceal its role in the compilation of these materials. The White House is not a whistleblower and nothing that I was shown justifies such duplicitous conduct.

  5. Dwight D Eisenhower:

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


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