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CONCEALED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hidden on any grounds for any motive
Example:
a concealed compartment in his briefcase
Classified under:
Similar:
bushwhacking (lying in ambush)
dark (secret)
furtive; sneak; sneaky; stealthy; surreptitious (marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed)
hidden; obscure (difficult to find)
hidden; secret (designed to elude detection)
incognito (with your identity concealed)
sealed (undisclosed for the time being)
secret (not open or public; kept private or not revealed)
shady (quiet, dark, or concealed)
sneaking; unavowed (not openly expressed)
Also:
covert (secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed)
Antonym:
unconcealed (not concealed or hidden)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not accessible to view
Example:
in stormy weather the stars are out of sight
Synonyms:
concealed; hidden; out of sight
Classified under:
Similar:
invisible; unseeable (impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb conceal
Context examples:
Yes; where else can they be so well concealed?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The excellence of his understanding and his principles can be concealed only by that shyness which too often keeps him silent.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He pays you well, and if he chooses to lie concealed it is no direct business of yours.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ay, it must be that; the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment coming, pede claudo, years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the fault.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“What think you of this, young sir?” asked the painter, tearing off the cloth which concealed the flat object which he had borne beneath his arm.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By what means could it have been so long concealed?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I was on the lee side of the forecastle, and the mainsail, which was still drawing, concealed from me a certain portion of the after-deck.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The sledge was still visible, nor did I again lose sight of it except at the moments when for a short time some ice-rock concealed it with its intervening crags.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Emma's tremblings as she asked, and as she listened, were better concealed than Harriet's, but they were not less.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
However, this suppression does not necessarily mean that the anger directed at others is reduced or controlled, but rather that the triggers eliciting such angry reactions are concealed or not explicitly stated.
(Self-defeating humour promotes psychological well-being, University of Granada)
