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VEILED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Muted or unclear
Example:
the image is veiled or foggy
Classified under:
Similar:
indistinct (not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having or as if having a veil or concealing cover
Example:
veiled insults
Classified under:
Antonym:
unveiled (revealed; especially by having a veil removed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb veil
Context examples:
With those words he took her up in his arms; and, with the veiled face lying on his bosom, and addressed towards his own, carried her, motionless and unconscious, down the stairs.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story which our visitor detailed to us.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am a reactionary—so complete a reactionary that my position is incomprehensible to you who live in a veiled lie of social organization and whose sight is not keen enough to pierce the veil.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“My man,” she said, looking at me for an instant with tremulous lids which fluttered down and veiled her eyes as she snuggled her head against my breast with a happy little sigh.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"Oh, sure," agreed Wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office, mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls. A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity—except his wife, who moved close to Tom.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
