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Concealed   /kənsˈild/   Listen
verb
Conceal  v. t.  (past & past part. concealed; pres. part. concealing)  To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of. "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing." "Declare ye among the nations,... publish and conceal not." "He which finds him shall deserve our thanks,... He that conceals him, death."
Synonyms: To hide; secrete; screen; cover; disguise; dissemble; mask; veil; cloak; screen. To Conceal, Hide, Disguise, Dissemble, Secrete. To hide is the generic term, which embraces all the rest. To conceal is simply not make known what we wish to keep secret. In the Bible hide often has the specific meaning of conceal. See To disguise or dissemble is to conceal by assuming some false appearance. To secrete is to hide in some place of secrecy. A man may conceal facts, disguise his sentiments, dissemble his feelings, secrete stolen goods. "Bur double griefs afflict concealing hearts." "Both dissemble deeply their affections." "We have in these words a primary sense, which reveals a future state, and a secondary sense, which hides and secretes it."



adjective
Concealed  adj.  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted.
Concealed weapons (Law), dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, a practice forbidden by statute.






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"Concealed" Quotes from Famous Books



... presently, making some excuse, she slipped in there by herself and swiftly spread under the sheet which lay upon the bed a quantity of very finely powdered and splintered glass which was poisoned, and which she had brought with her concealed in her clothes. Shortly afterwards she took leave of her sister, declaring that she could never forgive herself for not having come near her all this time, and that she would now begin to make amends for ...
— The Olive Fairy Book • Various

... had swept out of sight, and thus left the woods to ring again with their echoes; and it may be many russet-clad children, lurking in those broad meadows, with the bittern and the woodcock and the rail, though wholly concealed by brakes and hardhack and meadow-sweet, ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... a long time concealed in the shadow of the hut. Finally, when he heard the voices dying away in different directions, and was satisfied that the charcoal-men were attending to their furnace work, he made up his mind to come out. But, as he did not wish to meet any one, instead of crossing through the cutting he ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... secretly loved her, yet moved somewhat at her refusall, hee busily searched some meanes to worke his damnable intent. And (having found occasion and opportunity to accomplish his purpose, which he had long time concealed) brought to passe, that the same day that Charites was delivered by the subtill meane and valiant audacity of her husband, from the puissance of the Theeves, he mingled himselfe among the assembly, faining that he was glad of ...
— The Golden Asse • Lucius Apuleius

... direction. The gaze of both men encountered the picture of a brown-eyed, brown-haired girl of exquisite proportions, standing framed in the open window. She was clad in a riding suit of light material, with a long-skirted coat which obviously concealed the divided skirt beneath. Her long, brown top boots were white with dust of the trail, and her vicious-looking Mexican spurs hung loosely upon her heels. Her eyes were bright with intelligence and good humor, and her pretty ...
— The Forfeit • Ridgwell Cullum


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