Synonyms for veil
veɪlveil

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1. veil

   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, conceal, cover, disguise, dissemble, entomb, hide, inter, mask, overwhelm, screen, secrete, suppress

   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. veil

   Synonyms:
   intercept, hide, screen, disguise, palliate, mask, cover, conceal

   Antonyms:
   expose, unveil, strip, denude, exaggerate

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1. head covering, veilnoun

   a garment that covers the head and face

   Synonyms:
   head covering, caul, velum, embryonic membrane, humeral veil

   Antonyms:
   unveil

2. veil, velumnoun

   a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms

   Synonyms:
   head covering, caul, velum, soft palate, embryonic membrane, humeral veil

   Antonyms:
   unveil

3. caul, veil, embryonic membranenoun

   the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

   Synonyms:
   humeral veil, gastrocolic omentum, caul, greater omentum, velum, head covering, embryonic membrane

   Antonyms:
   unveil

4. humeral veil, veilverb

   a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl

   Synonyms:
   head covering, caul, velum, embryonic membrane, humeral veil

   Antonyms:
   unveil

5. veilverb

   to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil

   "women in Afghanistan veil their faces"

   Synonyms:
   obscure, blot out, hide, obliterate

   Antonyms:
   unveil

6. obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hideverb

   make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

   "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"

   Synonyms:
   shroud, mist, wipe out, confuse, blot out, enshroud, overcloud, kill, becloud, fog, blur, conceal, haze over, befog, obnubilate, cover, obliterate, obscure, hide out, efface, bedim, hide, cloud

   Antonyms:
   unveil

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Fetal Membrane
   • Hide
   • Plant Part

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1. veilnoun

   Synonyms:
   screen, shade, curtain

2. veilnoun

   Synonyms:
   cover, disguise, mask, visor, blind, cloak

3. veilverb

   Synonyms:
   screen

4. veilverb

   Synonyms:
   cover, hide, mask, conceal, disguise

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1. veilnoun

   Synonyms:
   disguise, pretense, cloak, mask, mantilla

2. veilverb

   Synonyms:
   screen, cloak, disguise, shroud, mask, conceal

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1. List of paraphrases for "veil":

   headscarf, hijab, sail, voile, sailing, scarf, burqa, cloak, weil, shroud, vale, kite, cloudy

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How to use veil in a sentence?

1. Donald Trump:

   This week the curtain was lifted. The corruption was revealed for all to see. The veil was pulled back on a vast criminal enterprise run out of the State Department by Hillary Clinton, it is hard to tell where the Hillary Clinton Foundation ended, and where the State Department began.

2. Al Pacino:

   It’s hard to explain in today’s world — to explain who I was at that time and the bolt of lightning that it was, i felt like, all of a sudden, some veil was lifted and all eyes were on me. Of course, they were on others in the film. But ‘ The Godfather ’ gave me a new identity that was hard for me to cope with.

3. Danielle Citron:

   With Discord, John Redgrave subscribe to channels and engage in private chat, which is a veil of privacy and secrecy in the way it is constructed.

4. Link Starbureiy:

   The biggest veil - which will be the last one - to be lifted, is the most mind-blowing one, as it reveals that the whole world - all of it - is a lie.

5. Eugène Ionesco:

   For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.