What are some alternative words for conceal?
Synonyms for conceal
kənˈsil
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Princeton's WordNet
hide, conceal(verb)
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, obscureconceal, hold back, hold in(verb)
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
Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, veilAntonyms:
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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Editors Contribution
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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PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "conceal":
hide, disguise, mask, obscure, concealment, dissemble, camouflage, bury
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#272 | check | |
#333 | control | |
#656 | keep | |
#846 | cover | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1049 | screen | |
#1275 | hold | |
#2071 | wait | |
#2700 | contain | |
#2880 | hide | |
#4501 | inter | |
#5420 | moderate | |
#5519 | mask | |
#6857 | retain | |
#7523 | arrest | |
#12551 | curb | |
#13380 | obscure | |
#13987 | bury | |
#16683 | suppress | |
#17738 | veil | |
#21059 | camouflage | |
#21091 | disguise | |
#21182 | cloak | |
#23556 | enclose | |
#24594 | conceal | |
#30094 | restrain | |
#31722 | shroud | |
#36343 | confine | |
#39035 | overwhelm | |
#39704 | concealment | |
#61300 | secrete | |
#72502 | obliterate | |
#88921 | obfuscate | |
#90962 | forbear | |
#181493 | dissemble |
How to use conceal in a sentence?
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
He did choose to conceal himself, and there were many reasons for that.
It portrayed the city concealing something that they didn't actually conceal.
The appeals court's ruling today solidifies something we have known from the very beginning of this suit - GM's bankruptcy filing was a calculated move in its effort to conceal and cover up its actions.
Translations for conceal
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- أخفىArabic
- skrýt, skrývat, zakrýt, schovat, ukrýtCzech
- skjuleDanish
- verheimlichen, verschleiern, verbergen, verschweigenGerman
- αποκρύπτωGreek
- ocultar, esconderSpanish
- peitma, varjamaEstonian
- پنهان کردنPersian
- peittää, kätkeä, salataFinnish
- cacher, dissimulerFrench
- ferbergjeWestern Frisian
- ceilIrish
- छिपानाHindi
- eltitkol, elrejt, titkolHungarian
- menyembunyikanIndonesian
- fela, hyljaIcelandic
- celare, nascondereItalian
- לְהַסתִירHebrew
- 隠すJapanese
- 숨기다, 감추다Korean
- شاردنهوهKurdish
- occulōLatin
- slēptLatvian
- whakangaroMāori
- verbergen, verstoppenDutch
- gøyme, skjule, dekke over, gjemme, fortieNorwegian
- chować, ukrywaćPolish
- omitir, esconderPortuguese
- ascundeRomanian
- скрыть, прятать, скрывать, спрятатьRussian
- döljaSwedish
- மறைக்கTamil
- ปกปิด, ปิดบังThai
- itagoTagalog
- gizlemekTurkish
- چھپاناUrdu
- giấuVietnamese
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