Word Finder - disguised

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To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.

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Spies often disguise themselves.

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To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.

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He disguised his true intentions.

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To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

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Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, especially to conceal one's identity.

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Drunk.

The Athenian empire again was a thinly disguised autocracy.

Pilate came up to Jerusalem and dispersed the petitioners by means of disguised soldiers armed with clubs.

The very names of the islands indicate their nature, for the terminal a or ay is the Norse ey, meaning "island," which is scarcely disguised even in the words Pomona and Hoy.

My bet is she disguised herself as you—that's why Shipton said your name to Jake Weller!

There also exists in two manuscripts a short poem, La Folie Tristan, relating how Tristan, disguised as a fool, visits the court of King Mark.

Smearing with gypsum (Tiravos, titanos) had a similar purifying effect, and it has been suggested that the Titans were no more than old-world votaries who had so disguised themselves.

One of her riders urged his horse into a canter and approached, while she halted her horse, disguised among the men.

On leaving Egypt he travelled by land to the Persian Gulf, disguised as a Mameluke, visiting Damascus, and entering the great mosque undetected.

The root appears more or less disguised in a vast number of river names all over the Celtic area in Europe.

We parallel it with the Arthurian story, and hold that, just as there was probably a real Arthur, however different from the hero of the trouveres, so there was a real Hood, however now enlarged and disguised by the accretions of legend.

In 1859, however, he entered the city disguised as a carter, and, through the influence of Humboldt with the king, got permission to stay there.

Disguised as a groom, he started on the 18th of August with only two gentlemen to make his way to the Highlands.

The large powers granted to the king under the new constitution displeased the Liberals, who saw in its provision only a disguised form of personal government.

The voice sounded nervous to Dean, and perhaps disguised.

The present structure, which dates from 1347, has its Gothic character disguised by a classical facade with Ionic pillars and much tasteless modernization.

In the subsequent years Mantineia still found opportunity to give the Athenians covert help, and during the Corinthian War (394387) scarcely disguised its sympathy with the anti-Spartan league.

In 1773 (Dec. 16) a party of citizens, disguised as Indians and instigated by popular meetings, boarded some tea-ships in the harbour of Boston, and to prevent the landing of their taxable cargoes threw them into the sea; this incident is known in history as the " Boston tea-party."

On the 12th of December 1859 the M`Lean-Juarez treaty was concluded, which gave the United States a sort of disguised protectorate over Mexico, with certain rights of way for railroads over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and between the Rio Grande and Pacific. The American Senate, however, did not ratify the treaty, and a motion for its reconsideration late in 1860 came to nothing, owing to the approach of the War of Secession.

Once ordained bishop of Edessa, with the connivance of Theodora, James, disguised as a ragged beggar (whence his name Baradaeus, Syriac Burdeana, Arabic alBar adia), traversed these regions preaching, teaching and ordaining new clergy to the number, it is said, of 80,000.

Many of my stories are set in thinly disguised London locations.

Mrs. M`Donnell - who was but sixteen - escaped to the British fleet disguised as a midshipman, carrying a basket of vegetables in which her baby was hidden.

At a later period he tried to abdicate again, and his wife had to keep him in a species of disguised confinement.

Marryat's first attempt was somewhat severely criticized from an artistic point of view, and he was accused of gratifying private grudges by introducing real personages too thinly disguised; and as he attributed some of his own adventures to Frank Mildmay he was rather shocked to learn that readers identified him with that disagreeable character.

The first article declared that " The high contracting parties engage to take such measures as shall constitute an absolute and complete guarantee that no open or disguised bounty shall be granted on the manufacture or exportation of sugar."

There is a tradition that on one occasion the abbot of Beverley, anxious to investigate the case for himself, visited Mother Shipton's cottage disguised, and that no sooner had he knocked than the old woman called out "Come in, Mr Abbot, for you are not so much disguised but the fox may be seen through the sheep's skin."

It was published in 1670, anonymously, printer and place of publication being likewise disguised (Hamburgi apud Heinricum Kiinraht).

Many of the rioters were disguised as women and were on horseback; each band was led by a captain called "Rebecca," his followers being, known as "her daughters."

Even then he set forth as his own his brother's solutionpurposely disguised.

The object of Charles's indulgence was disguised; the object of James's indulgence was patent.

Though he disguised himeif, he was detected by his old enemy and imprisoned.

This was a cleverly disguised swimming pool area with dry ice giving a very nice effect.

Children are often most receptive to education when it is disguised as a hands-on game.

Cynthia gave a not-too-well disguised harrumph and left the kitchen for the dining room with a plate full of breakfast.

All of the weapons controllers had been taken from their positions all over the world and placed here, disguised as lesser systems.

A table had been placed in the middle, and Jonathan sat at it, disguised as a man with graying hair.

Toy compares Barnebo, "son of Nebo," of which he regards Barnabas as a slightly disguised form (Jewish Encyclopaedia).

This lady, after many romantic adventures disguised in male attire, married a man called O'Gallagher and died in poverty on the continent.

Justice is executed, and taboos, feasts, taxes, &c., arranged by a mysterious disguised figure, the duk-duk.

My bet is she disguised herself as you—that's why Shipton said your name to Jake Weller!

Robert Fortune disguised himself as an Asian to evade capture and brought back Pom pom chrysanthemums.

What set them apart was the harsh edge that barely disguised accents brought.

At its most fanatical this was outright xenophobia disguised under a sheen of scientific legitimacy.

The wonderful thing is that the waterer is disguised as a present, and we have several different designs that match any home décor or Christmas decorating theme.

Shakespeare's women often disguised themselves as men, allowing for some costume creativity.

Learning must be disguised in clever, interactive kids PC games.

Midir, using his magic, disguised the two of them as swans and flew away with Etain.

But the Abbe Huc states that William Moorcroft, an Englishman who made a journey into Tibet in the neighbourhood of Lake Manasarowar in 1812, and another into Kashgar in 1824, lived in Lhasa for twelve years disguised as a Mussulman.

Disguised in female attire and aided by a passport obtained by the devoted Flora Macdonald, he passed through Skye and parted from his gallant conductress at Portree.

The old initiative and self-reliance of the nation, already shaken by years of disaster, were now completely undermined, and the people submitted without show of resistance to a theocracy disguised as absolute monarchy.

Their primitive beauty is not marred by any attempt to force them into an historical mould, or disguised beneath an accumulation of the insipid inventions of later times.