Word Finder - hiding

definition

To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.

example

He hides his magazines under the bed.

synonyms

• conceal
• hide away
• secrete

definition

To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.

synonyms

• go undercover
• hide away
• hide out
• lie low

definition

To beat with a whip made from hide.

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A state of concealment.

definition

A place of concealment.

Alex had been hiding more than a father.

I just wondered how you felt about him hiding things from you.

There was no hiding from her mate.

It was a terrible choice for a hiding place.

They'll think you're hiding something.

She's hiding from us somewhere nearby.

Jessi was hiding something.

I wanted to say the entire French Foreign hiding in the other room but before I could speak, we both could barely hear a voice.

I just wish you'd stop hiding everything from me.

Still, hiding from them wasn't going to solve anything - especially for his sisters.

She pulled her knees to her chest and wrapped her arms around them, hiding her face from the light.

He had a feeling the most difficult was the one hiding in the Sanctuary.

There was no point in hiding the truth.

But now I am hiding something!

The old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed desirous of hiding her adoration for Helene and inclined rather to show her fear of Anna Pavlovna.

And lastly you too, peasants, come from the forests where you are hiding in terror, return to your huts without fear, in full assurance that you will find protection!

He had equipped himself with a mental telescope and looked into remote space, where petty worldliness hiding itself in misty distance had seemed to him great and infinite merely because it was not clearly seen.

There is on one to connect me to New Hampshire though this little group who thought they were so clever hiding in that silly business in Keene might suspect that the one they hunted is now hunting them!

He went to the library, where he knew she'd be hiding out.

She felt his fear and squeezed her eyes closed, the man in her arms colliding with the man hiding in the corner of her mind.

Even so, she hadn't even considered telling him whatever it was she was hiding.

My dear half-brother Erik went into hiding and hasn't been seen in weeks, leaving his part of the world completely exposed.

Darkyn saw it somehow, and Deidre suspected Gabriel's here-gone approach to her was his way of hiding how much he did care.

Gabe said nothing, suspecting he knew where the death-dealer was hiding out.

She tossed the fish back to the ocean and coiled the rope, hiding it beneath several small rocks in the back of the cave.

Katie didn't bother hiding her grimace.

He.d thought Lankha skittish when he met the healer but soon found all the healers quaking and hiding.

Then the awkwardness of his silent position hiding in the darkness extended beyond the point of propriety of making his presence known.

Look, Edith Shipton had just poured her heart out to my wife and me that she had run away from an abusive husband and was hiding.

He considered switching a digit and feigning a mistake but he knew these guys would figure he was hiding something and be all the more aggressive when they questioned Cynthia.

He watched her face, sensing she was hiding a great deal.

At least he'd confirmed that whatever secrets Lana had were well worth hiding.

One charged her hiding place, and she scrambled back, pressing herself against the tree.

I'm thinking someone is destroying the fed buildings in case a certain fed is hiding there.

The buildings held lights and people, and the canal curved to the left, hiding the size of the city.

He turned, and she stopped.  With the tip of one dagger, he tugged a necklace free from the shirt hiding it.  On it was two small green gems.

She accused them of jailing her sons without trial, hiding them away or simply not telling her of their whereabouts.

Vinnie claimed to be able to show the police where Billie and Willie had been hiding and continued to brag that he had enough information to make headlines and sink half the Philadelphia mobsters.

When I got to the top of the stairs, they must have been hiding back of the door 'cause the next thing I knew they had a towel over my head and were dragging me into the bathroom.

Pausing for a moment, Pierre noticed several other men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides.

Hiding your groups through your control panel allows you to remove the groups from your profile, without affecting your interaction with them, or their accessibility.

The conspiracy was honeycombed with treachery, and it was long a matter of dispute to whose information the government were indebted for Fitzgerald's arrest; but it is no longer open to doubt that the secret of his hiding place was disclosed by a Catholic barrister named Magan, to whom the stipulated reward was ultimately paid through Francis Higgins, another informer.

He once lay in hiding for two months with the duchesse du Maine at Sceaux, where were produced the comedietta of La Prude and the tragedy of Rome sauvee, and afterwards for a time lived chiefly at Luneville; here Madame du Chatelet had established herself at the court of King Stanislaus, and carried on a liaison with Saint-Lambert, an officer in the king's guard.

The counter-revolutionaries drove him into hiding from May 1795 until the amnesty proclaimed in the autumn of that year.

A majority of the artists are content to copy old pictures of Buddhas sixteen disciples, the seven gods of happiness, and other similar assemblages of mythical or historical personages, not only because such work offers large opportunity for the use of striking colors and the production of meretricious effects, dear to the eye of the average Western householder and tourist, but also because a complicated design, as compared with a simple one, has the advantage of hiding the technical imperfections of the ware.

How his affairs fell into this condition, why he did not die in his own house, and why in the previous summer he had been in hiding, as we know he was from a letter still extant, are points not clearly explained.

It is possible that he had to go into hiding to avoid the danger of being accused as a real Jacobite, when those with whom he had contracted to assume the character were dead and could no longer justify his attitude.

It is, however, by no means easy to determine their original tenets, as in the 13th and 14th centuries they were a body of obscure and unlettered peasants, hiding themselves in a corner, while in the 16th century they were absorbed into the general movement of the Reformation.

But his moderate principles brought suspicion on him, and during the Terror he had to go into hiding.

All this time he was in hiding in cellars and sewers, where he was attacked by a horrible skin disease, tended only by the woman Simonne Evrard, who remained true to him.