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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(2.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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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How to use conceal in a sentence?

1. Dwight D. Eisenhower:

   Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

2. Chris Coons:

   I've gotten some reassurance about how difficult it is for them to effectively conceal what we know to have been their illicit nuclear weapons developments there.

3. Mayank kumar:

   You know how I conceal my pain talk so much and laugh a lot”

4. Edgar Quinet:

   The perfection of art is to conceal art.

5. Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109:

   No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....