Word Finder - disguising

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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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A masque or masquerade.

Surrounded by the screaming children the mummers, covering their faces and disguising their voices, bowed to their hostess and arranged themselves about the room.

This afternoon, after work, I'll call you, disguising my voice.

At a later date the aroma of the rambler roses disguising the cubicles, emitted sweetness into the air !

He is fond of disguising himself, and devoted to fun and practical jokes.

Pear shaped gals need to focus on balancing the torso and the bust while disguising fuller hips and thighs.

An indulgent and stylish coverlet can be laid over the bed, disguising a discounted duvet.

With so many of Shakespeare's heroines disguising themselves as boys, actors found themselves double cross-dressing - boys playing girls playing boys.

Since patients are adept at disguising and denying the symptoms of trichotillomania, the condition may go on for years without detection or treatment.

Hollywood stars are often accentuating or disguising their own hair with the use of wigs.

Sweater dresses made with lightweight cotton knits that emphasize every imperfection may frighten those without tight, toned bodies, but thicker fabrics can highlight your best features while disguising the things you don't like.

Look for special features such as phone number disguising and protected photos.

You're better off accentuating what's there, as opposed to disguising it.

Seeking out Nonnus, she overcame his canonical scruples by her tears of genuine penitence, was baptized, and, disguising herself in the garb of a male penitent, retired to a grotto on the Mount of Olives, where she died after three years of strict penance.

He was still allowed his liberty, but one night while supping with Walsingham's servant he observed a memorandum of the minister's concerning himself, fled to St John's Wood, where he was joined by some of his companions, and after disguising himself succeeded in reaching Harrow, where he was sheltered by a recent convert to Romanism.

The agreeable versidecadence fication of an amateur like Ausonius, the refined of GauL panegyrics of a Eumenius, disguising nullity of thought beneath elegance of form, already foretold the perilous sterility of scholasticism.

At a later date the aroma of the rambler roses disguising the cubicles, emitted sweetness into the air!

Disguising himself as Apollo, brother of Artemis, he overcame any scruples Callisto may have had and they became lovers.

A simple nylon cup will produce a droopy effect; molded cotton shapes your chest, while disguising nursing pads or any leakage at the same time.

The best blouson swimsuits include under wires and this is important because lifting the breasts holds the fabric further away from the tummy, further disguising any figure problems.

Of course, there is also the theory that all spirits who communicate via Ouija boards are actually demons disguising themselves as friendly ghosts.

The Perfekt lineup also includes the Body Perfection Gel, a similar treatment that promises to perfect and protect the skin by disguising imperfections, hydrating dry spots and leaving behind a glowing hint of color.

The British Pharmacopoeia contains a watery solution - the Aqua Chloroformi - which is useful in disguising the taste of nauseous drugs; a liniment which consists of equal parts of camphor liniment and chloroform, and is a useful counter-irritant; the Spiritus Chloroformi (erroneously known as "chloric ether"), which is a useful anodyne in doses of from five to forty drops; and the Tinctura Chloroformi et Morphinae Composita, which is the equivalent of a proprietary drug called chlorodyne.

Such a fashion of disguising difficulties points, not only to an inconsistency in Hume's theory as stated by himself, but to the initial error upon which it proceeds; for these perplexities are but the consequences of the doctrine that cognition is to be explained on the basis of particular perceptions.

It had taken her two days to work up the courage to walk alone into what appeared to be the rear wall but was really a mirage disguising a grey bathroom with a clothing unit in the corner.

With the memory of Tilsit still fresh in men's minds, it was not unnatural that to cynical men of the world like Metternich he merely seemed to be disguising " under the language of evangelical abnegation " vast and perilous schemes of ambition.

Disguising himself so that his dead body might not be recognized, he turned upon the pursuers and was slain after a desperate resistance (6th of October 1620).

The version in which Hugdietrich gains access to his future wife by disguising himself as a woman has also a foundation in fact.

He obtained a knowledge of the methods of working practised in Bohemia by disguising himself as a porter, and thus worked for three years in a Bohemian glass-house.