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CONCEALING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of keeping something secret
Synonyms:
concealing; concealment; hiding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("concealing" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concealing"):
camouflage; disguise (the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance)
mask (activity that tries to conceal something)
cover; covering; masking; screening (the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it)
cover (a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent))
cover-up (concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public)
burial; burying (concealing something under the ground)
smoke screen; smokescreen (an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure)
stealing; stealth (avoiding detection by moving carefully)
money laundering (concealing the source of illegally gotten money)
Derivation:
conceal (prevent from being seen or discovered)
conceal (hold back; keep from being perceived by others)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Covering or hiding
Example:
concealing curtains prevented discovery
Classified under:
Antonym:
revealing (showing or making known)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb conceal
Context examples:
It had not been possible for him to spend less; he had done nothing but what Sir Walter Elliot was imperiously called on to do; but blameless as he was, he was not only growing dreadfully in debt, but was hearing of it so often, that it became vain to attempt concealing it longer, even partially, from his daughter.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He looked upon it for a moment, thrusting forth his under jaw, tried the point upon his hand, and then, hastily concealing it in the bosom of his jacket, trundled back again into his old place against the bulwark.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But this is no excuse for their concealing it from us.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Well read in the art of concealing a treasure, the possibility of false linings to the drawers did not escape her, and she felt round each with anxious acuteness in vain.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
That the loss of your eyes would be no impediment to your bodily strength, by which you might still be useful to his majesty; that blindness is an addition to courage, by concealing dangers from us; that the fear you had for your eyes, was the greatest difficulty in bringing over the enemy’s fleet, and it would be sufficient for you to see by the eyes of the ministers, since the greatest princes do no more.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I expressed a wish to visit England, but concealing the true reasons of this request, I clothed my desires under a guise which excited no suspicion, while I urged my desire with an earnestness that easily induced my father to comply.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In spite of his capacity for concealing his emotions, I could easily see that Holmes was in a state of suppressed excitement, while I was myself tingling with that half-sporting, half-intellectual pleasure which I invariably experienced when I associated myself with him in his investigations.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It did appear—there was no concealing it—exactly like the pretence of being in love with her, instead of Harriet; an inconstancy, if real, the most contemptible and abominable! and she had difficulty in behaving with temper.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His still refusing to tell her what he had gone for was but the promotion of gaiety; a day before it might have irritated, but now it was a pleasant joke—suspected only of concealing something planned as a pleasant surprise to herself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The necessity of concealing from her mother and Marianne, what had been entrusted in confidence to herself, though it obliged her to unceasing exertion, was no aggravation of Elinor's distress.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
