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verb

Disguise v. t. (past & past part. disguised; pres. part. disguising)

To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive. "Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner."

To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions. "All God's angels come to us disguised."

To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate. "I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker of five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship."

Synonyms: To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign; pretend; secrete. See Conceal.

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Etymology of 'Disguised'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disguised" Quotes from Famous Books

... Myth—chiefly, Robert supposed, because He was the Son of God. Mr. Ricardo could not leave these two alone. He hunted them down, he badgered and worried them, he covered them with gibes and insults. It seemed to Robert sometimes that even the multiplication table was really a disguised missile hurled in ...

— The Dark House • I. A. R. Wylie

... a greater vividness than he could command by pen); others were new; many unfinished. All were unusual, to say the least. All, too, had obviously happened to himself at some period of his roving career, though here and there he had disguised his own part in them by Hoffmann's device of throwing the action into the third person. Those told to me by word of mouth I could only feel were true, true for himself at least. In no sense were they mere inventions, but arose in moments of vision upon ...

— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood

... been kinder, nothing more truly felt and meant. But the young make their own experience, and my father, with the smiling open look which disarmed opposition, and disguised all the time a certain stubborn independence of will, characteristic of him through life, took his own way. He went to New Zealand, and, now that it was done, the interest and sympathy of all his family and friends followed him. Let me give here the touching ...

— A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... came about in the following way. The Committee of Public Safety having presented a report on the scarcity of corn and bread, the Convention was electrified by the doleful recital. In the ensuing debate stories are told of men disguised as women who practise insidious devices among the queues at the bakers' shops. At once the Convention decrees that men acting thus while in disguise shall be deemed worthy of death. A deputy named Garnier then suggests that as this is clearly a device of the infamous Pitt to increase disorder, ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... Delia departed. The tall, soldierly man, whose pleasant looks were somewhat spoilt by a slightly underhung mouth, and prominent chin, disguised, however, by a fine moustache, offered assistance ...

— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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