Word Meanings - HIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete. A city that is set on an hill can not be hid. Matt. v. 15. If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid. Shak. 2. To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to
Additional info about word: HIDE
1. To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete. A city that is set on an hill can not be hid. Matt. v. 15. If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid. Shak. 2. To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. Pope. 3. To remove from danger; to shelter. In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. Ps. xxvi. 5. To hide one's self, to put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself." Prov. xxii. 3. -- To hide the face, to withdraw favor. "Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled." Ps. xxx. 7. -- To hide the face from. To overlook; to pardon. "Hide thy face from my sins." Ps. li. 9. To withdraw favor from; to be displeased with. Syn. -- To conceal; secrete; disguise; dissemble; screen; cloak; mask; veil. See Conceal.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HIDE)
- Abscond
- Decamp
- bolt
- depart
- disappear
- steal away
- run off
- hide
- withdraw
- retreat
- Cloak
- Conceal
- disguise
- mask
- veil
- cover
- palliate
- screen
- mitigate
- extenuate
- Hide
- secrete
- keep secret
- dissemble
- suppress
- Cover Hide
- conceal
- cloak
- protect
- meet
- secure
- overspread
- clothe
- shield
- shelter
- Lurk
- lie
- skulk
- abscond
- lie hid
- lie in wait
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HIDE)
- Expose
- reveal
- betray
- exhibit
- produce
- mis-suffice
- Open
- expose
- surrender
- aggravate
- exaggerate
- prosecute
- Loosen
- imperil
- endanger
- open
- liberate
- free
Related words: (words related to HIDE)
- DISAPPEARING
p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing - ABSCOND
1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. 2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very - EXHIBITION
The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, - PROSECUTE
To institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to prosecute for public offenses. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To follow after. Latimer. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - SCREENINGS
The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - EXHIBITIONER
One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot. - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - SHELTERLESS
Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - SECRETE
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See - PROTECT
To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend. - CONCEALED
Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute. - EXHIBIT
A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence. (more info) 1. Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - DEPARTURE
The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - DEPARTMENT
1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.