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Hide   /haɪd/   Listen
Hide

verb
(past hid; past part. hidden; pres. part. hiding)
1.
Prevent from being seen or discovered.  Synonym: conceal.  "Hide the money"
2.
Be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety.  Synonym: hide out.  "She is hiding out in a cabin in Montana"
3.
Cover as if with a shroud.  Synonyms: cover, enshroud, shroud.
4.
Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing.  Synonyms: blot out, obliterate, obscure, veil.  "A veiled threat"
noun
1.
The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).  Synonym: fell.
2.
Body covering of a living animal.  Synonyms: pelt, skin.



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"Hide" Quotes from Famous Books



... Marquise de Bois l'Hery, confronts the more than modest toilette of some artist's wife or daughter; while the model who posed for that beautiful Andromeda at the entrance, goes by victoriously, clad in too short a skirt, in wretched garments that hide her beauty beneath all the false lines of fashion. People observe, admire, criticise each other, exchange glances contemptuous, disdainful, or curious, interrupted suddenly at the passage of a celebrity, ...
— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

... in her place and to think what she would do to hide the seal ring. The idea of embedding it in a ball of the wax occurred to me. But, having done this, what would she do with the ball? It was not an easy thing to hide; in her purse, her satchel, it ...
— The Film of Fear • Arnold Fredericks

... growing brain, and hence the memory-images of them, on account of their vividness, can not always be surely distinguished from the perceptions themselves. Most of the plays that children invent of themselves may be referred to this fact; on the other hand, the play of hide-and-seek (especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth months), and, nearly allied to this, the hunting after scraps of paper, bits of biscuit, buttons, and other favorite objects (in the fifteenth month), constitute an ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer

... Tom Ingoldsby, in the enthusiasm of the moment, became so lost in the material world, that, in his abstraction, he unwarily laid his hand on the cock of the urn. Quivering with emotion, he gave it such an unlucky twist, that the full stream of its scalding contents descended on the gingerbread hide of the unlucky Cupid. The confusion was complete; the whole economy of the table disarranged—the company broke up in most admired disorder—and "vulgar minds will never know" anything more of Miss Simpkinson's ode till they peruse it ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough

... woman closed the window. It was as well; Watson was only human, and he could hide his curiosity just so long and no longer. He turned ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint


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