What is another word for disguise?
1121 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dɪsɡˈa͡ɪz], [ dɪsɡˈaɪz], [ d_ɪ_s_ɡ_ˈaɪ_z]
Disguise is a term used to describe hiding one's true personality, appearance, or identity. Synonyms for this word include alter, cloak, mask, camouflage, veil, and cover-up. These words all have a similar meaning, with slight differences in their usage. Alter refers to making changes to something to make it unrecognizable. A cloak is a piece of clothing worn to cover oneself, while a mask is a covering worn over the face to hide one's identity. Camouflage is a means of blending into one's surroundings, often used in hunting or war. Veil refers to covering oneself or an object with a light, translucent material. Cover-up involves concealing or denying the truth about something. These synonyms can be used to describe various strategies for concealing one's identity or true intentions.
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Similar words for disguise:
- act (noun)
- charade (noun)
- cloak (noun)
- color (noun)
- concealment (noun)
- cover (noun)
- covering, makeup for deception (noun)
- excuse (noun)
- face (noun)
- false colors (noun)
- false face (noun)
- false front (noun)
- make-believe (noun)
- pretension (noun)
- pretentiousness (noun)
- put-on (noun)
- trick (noun)
- belie (verb)
- clothe (verb)
- color (verb)
- conceal (verb)
- cover (verb)
- doctor (verb)
- fake (verb)
- gloss (verb)
- hide (verb)
- juggle (verb)
- mask; misrepresent (verb)
- misrepresent (verb)
- misrepresent/misquote (verb)
- obscure (verb)
- palliate (verb)
- screen (verb)
- secrete (verb)
- simulate (verb)
- veil (verb)
- clothe
- color
- counterfeit
- cover
- dress
- juggle
- mask
- misrepresent
- obscure
- screen
- stash
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Disguise:
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- honest ,
- simulation ,
- submerge ,
- true .
- TARPS ,
- masquerade ,
- sheet ,
- tarp ,
- tegument ,
- teguments ,
- tent ,
- varnish ,
- window-dressing .
- beard ,
- blind ,
- counterfeit ,
- cover-up ,
- dissimulation ,
- dress ,
- fig leaf ,
- get-up ,
- illusion ,
- pageant ,
- pretense ,
- pretentiousness ,
- red herring ,
- trickery .
- co pout ,
- co pouts ,
- co-pout ,
- co-pouts ,
- cop outs ,
- copouts ,
- cover stories ,
- de fenses ,
- de-fenses ,
- song dance ,
- why and wherefores ,
- why wherefore ,
- why wherefores .
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v.
• belie- be lied ,
- be lying ,
- be-lied ,
- be-lying ,
- dis guise ,
- dis guised ,
- dis guises ,
- dis guising ,
- dis tort ,
- dis torts ,
- dis-guise ,
- dis-guised ,
- dis-guises ,
- dis-guising ,
- dis-tort ,
- dis-torts ,
- gave lie to ,
- gave the lie to ,
- gives lie to ,
- gives the lie to ,
- giving lie to ,
- giving the lie to ,
- glosses over ,
- glossing over ,
- mis color ,
- mis colored ,
- mis coloring ,
- mis colors ,
- mis lead ,
- mis leading ,
- mis leads ,
- mis state ,
- mis stated ,
- mis states ,
- mis stating ,
- mis-color ,
- mis-colored ,
- mis-coloring ,
- mis-colors ,
- mis-lead ,
- mis-leading ,
- mis-leads ,
- mis-state ,
- mis-stated ,
- mis-states ,
- mis-stating ,
- miscolored ,
- miscolors ,
- trumping up ,
- trumps up .
- Dizened ,
- Dizening ,
- be dizen ,
- be dizened ,
- be dizening ,
- be dizens ,
- be drape ,
- be draped ,
- be drapes ,
- be draping ,
- be-dizen ,
- be-dizened ,
- be-dizening ,
- be-dizens ,
- be-drape ,
- be-draped ,
- be-drapes ,
- be-draping ,
- bedraped ,
- bedrapes ,
- bedraping ,
- bundled up ,
- bundles up ,
- dizens ,
- dudded ,
- dudding ,
- end owed ,
- end owing ,
- end-owed ,
- end-owing ,
- fits out ,
- guised ,
- guising ,
- in vest ,
- in vested ,
- in vesting ,
- in vests ,
- in-vest ,
- in-vested ,
- in-vesting ,
- in-vests ,
- liverying ,
- out fit ,
- out fits ,
- out fitted ,
- out fitting ,
- out-fit ,
- out-fits ,
- out-fitted ,
- out-fitting ,
- suiting up ,
- suits up .
- co loring ,
- co-loring ,
- over state ,
- over stated ,
- over states ,
- over stating ,
- over-state ,
- over-stated ,
- over-states ,
- over-stating .
- boarded up ,
- boarding up ,
- boards up ,
- bushed up ,
- bushes up ,
- bushing up ,
- did on sly ,
- did on the sly ,
- did sly ,
- did the sly ,
- didst on sly ,
- didst on the sly ,
- didst sly ,
- didst the sly ,
- do on sly ,
- do sly ,
- do the sly ,
- does on sly ,
- does on the sly ,
- does sly ,
- does the sly ,
- doest on sly ,
- doest on the sly ,
- doest sly ,
- doest the sly ,
- doeth on sly ,
- doeth on the sly ,
- doeth sly ,
- doeth the sly ,
- doing on sly ,
- doing on the sly ,
- doing sly ,
- doing the sly ,
- dost on sly ,
- dost on the sly ,
- dost sly ,
- dost the sly ,
- doth on sly ,
- doth on the sly ,
- doth sly ,
- doth the sly ,
- over cast ,
- over casting ,
- over casts ,
- over laid ,
- over laying ,
- over spreading ,
- over spreads ,
- over-cast ,
- over-casting ,
- over-casts ,
- over-laid ,
- over-laying ,
- over-spread ,
- over-spreading ,
- over-spreads ,
- overcasts ,
- sets on ,
- setting on ,
- super impose ,
- super imposed ,
- super imposes ,
- super imposing ,
- super pose ,
- super posed ,
- super posing ,
- super-impose ,
- super-imposes ,
- super-imposing ,
- super-pose ,
- super-posed ,
- super-posing ,
- sur face ,
- sur faced ,
- sur faces ,
- sur facing ,
- sur-face ,
- sur-faced ,
- sur-faces ,
- sur-facing .
- de base ,
- de based ,
- de basing ,
- de-base ,
- de-based ,
- de-basing ,
- deaconed ,
- deaconing ,
- doped up ,
- dopes up ,
- doping up ,
- mixes with ,
- mixing with ,
- mixt with .
- dis simulate ,
- dis simulated ,
- dis simulates ,
- dis simulating ,
- dis-simulate ,
- dis-simulated ,
- dis-simulates ,
- dis-simulating ,
- put act ,
- put an act .
- ex plain ,
- ex plained ,
- ex plaining ,
- ex plains ,
- ex-plain ,
- ex-plained ,
- ex-plaining ,
- ex-plains ,
- smoothed over ,
- smoothing over ,
- smooths over ,
- softpedal .
- blots out ,
- go in to hiding ,
- goes in to hiding ,
- goes into hiding ,
- goes underground ,
- going in to hiding ,
- going into hiding ,
- going underground ,
- keeping from ,
- keeping secret ,
- keeps from ,
- keeps secret ,
- kept from ,
- lied low ,
- lies low ,
- not give awayed ,
- not give awaying ,
- not give aways ,
- not telling ,
- not tells ,
- put out of way ,
- put out the way ,
- put out way ,
- puts out of the way ,
- puts out of way ,
- puts out the way ,
- puts out way ,
- putting out of the way ,
- putting out of way ,
- putting out the way ,
- putting out way ,
- re serve ,
- re served ,
- re serving ,
- re-serve ,
- re-served ,
- re-serves ,
- re-serving ,
- stowed away ,
- stowing away ,
- stows away ,
- takes cover ,
- took cover ,
- tucking away ,
- tucks away ,
- went in to hiding ,
- went into hiding ,
- went underground ,
- with held ,
- with hold ,
- with holding ,
- with holds ,
- with-held ,
- with-hold ,
- with-holds .
- Illuded ,
- Illuding ,
- be guile ,
- be guiles ,
- be tray ,
- be trays ,
- be-guile ,
- be-guiles ,
- be-tray ,
- be-trays ,
- de lude ,
- de ludes ,
- de-lude ,
- de-ludes ,
- illudes ,
- performed magic ,
- performing magic ,
- performs magic ,
- prestidigitated ,
- prestidigitates ,
- prestidigitating .
- affect ,
- age ,
- antique ,
- assume ,
- deceive ,
- dissemble ,
- doctor up ,
- dress up ,
- falsify ,
- feign ,
- fudge ,
- garble ,
- make like ,
- make up ,
- muffle ,
- pretend ,
- put on a false front ,
- put on a front ,
- put on an act ,
- redo ,
- shroud ,
- touch up ,
- wear cheaters ,
- whitewash .
- Overdrew ,
- gave snow job ,
- gives snow job ,
- giving snow job ,
- mis interpret ,
- mis interpreted ,
- mis interpreting ,
- mis interprets ,
- mis quote ,
- mis quoted ,
- mis quotes ,
- mis quoting ,
- mis report ,
- mis reported ,
- mis reporting ,
- mis reports ,
- mis represented ,
- mis representing ,
- mis represents ,
- mis-interpret ,
- mis-interpreted ,
- mis-interpreting ,
- mis-interprets ,
- mis-quote ,
- mis-quoted ,
- mis-quotes ,
- mis-quoting ,
- mis-reported ,
- mis-reporting ,
- mis-reports ,
- mis-represented ,
- mis-representing ,
- mis-represents ,
- misreports ,
- over draw ,
- over drawing ,
- over drawn ,
- over draws ,
- over drew ,
- over-draw ,
- over-drawing ,
- over-drawn ,
- over-draws ,
- over-drew ,
- overdraws ,
- phonied up ,
- phonies up ,
- phonying up ,
- pro moting ,
- pro-mote ,
- pro-motes ,
- pro-moting ,
- spreading it on ,
- spreading on ,
- spreads it on ,
- spreads on ,
- take out context ,
- takes out context ,
- takes out of context ,
- taking out context ,
- taking out of context ,
- threw a curve ,
- threw curve ,
- throw curve ,
- throwing a curve ,
- throwing curve ,
- throws a curve ,
- throws curve ,
- took out context ,
- took out of context .
- be clouded ,
- be clouding ,
- be clouds ,
- be dimmed ,
- be dimming ,
- be fog ,
- be fogged ,
- be fogging ,
- be fogs ,
- be-cloud ,
- be-clouded ,
- be-clouding ,
- be-clouds ,
- be-dimmed ,
- be-dimming ,
- be-fog ,
- be-fogged ,
- be-fogging ,
- be-fogs ,
- cloud issue ,
- clouded issue ,
- clouded the issue ,
- clouding issue ,
- clouding the issue ,
- clouds issue ,
- clouds the issue ,
- double talked ,
- double talking ,
- double-talked ,
- double-talking ,
- doubletalk ,
- doubletalked ,
- doubletalking ,
- muddied the waters ,
- muddied waters ,
- muddies the waters ,
- muddies waters ,
- muddying the waters ,
- muddying waters ,
- over cloud ,
- over clouded ,
- over clouding ,
- over clouds ,
- over shadow ,
- over shadowed ,
- over shadowing ,
- over shadows ,
- over-cloud ,
- over-clouded ,
- over-clouding ,
- over-clouds ,
- over-shadow ,
- over-shadowed ,
- over-shadowing ,
- over-shadows ,
- threw smoke screen ,
- threw up smoke screen ,
- throw smoke screen ,
- throwing smoke screen ,
- throwing up smoke screen ,
- throws smoke screen ,
- throws up smoke screen .
- Glozed ,
- apologized for ,
- apologizes for ,
- apologizing for ,
- glozes ,
- makes light of ,
- making light of ,
- put a band aid ,
- put a band-aid ,
- put a bandaid ,
- put band aid ,
- put band-aid ,
- put bandaid ,
- put on a band aid ,
- put on a bandaid ,
- put on band aid ,
- put on band-aid ,
- put on bandaid ,
- puts a band aid ,
- puts a band-aid ,
- puts a bandaid ,
- puts band aid ,
- puts band-aid ,
- puts bandaid ,
- puts on a band aid ,
- puts on a band-aid ,
- puts on a bandaid ,
- puts on band aid ,
- puts on band-aid ,
- puts on bandaid ,
- putting a band aid ,
- putting a band-aid ,
- putting a bandaid ,
- putting band aid ,
- putting band-aid ,
- putting bandaid ,
- putting on a band aid ,
- putting on a band-aid ,
- putting on a bandaid ,
- putting on band aid ,
- putting on band-aid ,
- putting on bandaid ,
- quick fixed ,
- quick fixing ,
- quick fixt .
- de fend ,
- de fended ,
- de fending ,
- de fends ,
- de-fend ,
- de-fended ,
- de-fending ,
- de-fends ,
- umbraged ,
- umbraging ,
- walled off ,
- walling off ,
- walls off .
- de posit ,
- de posited ,
- de positing ,
- de posits ,
- de-posit ,
- de-posited ,
- de-positing ,
- de-posits ,
- hid out ,
- hided out ,
- hides out ,
- hiding out ,
- keep oneself ,
- keeping oneself ,
- keeping quiet ,
- keeping under wraps ,
- keeps oneself ,
- keeps quiet ,
- keeps to oneself ,
- keeps under wraps ,
- kept oneself ,
- kept quiet ,
- kept to oneself ,
- kept under wraps ,
- stashes away ,
- stashing away ,
- sweeping under rug ,
- sweeps under rug ,
- swept under rug .
- acted like ,
- acting like ,
- acts like ,
- did a take off ,
- did a take-off ,
- did a takeoff ,
- did like ,
- did take off ,
- did take-off ,
- did takeoff ,
- didst a take off ,
- didst a take-off ,
- didst a takeoff ,
- didst like ,
- didst take off ,
- didst take-off ,
- didst takeoff ,
- do a take off ,
- do take off ,
- do take-off ,
- do takeoff ,
- does a take off ,
- does a take-off ,
- does a takeoff ,
- does like ,
- does take off ,
- does take-off ,
- does takeoff ,
- doest a take off ,
- doest a take-off ,
- doest a takeoff ,
- doest like ,
- doest take off ,
- doest take-off ,
- doest takeoff ,
- doeth a take off ,
- doeth a take-off ,
- doeth a takeoff ,
- doeth like ,
- doeth take off ,
- doeth take-off ,
- doeth takeoff ,
- doing a take off ,
- doing a take-off ,
- doing a takeoff ,
- doing like ,
- doing take off ,
- doing take-off ,
- doing takeoff ,
- dost a take off ,
- dost a take-off ,
- dost a takeoff ,
- dost like ,
- dost take off ,
- dost take-off ,
- dost takeoff ,
- doth a take off ,
- doth a take-off ,
- doth a takeoff ,
- doth like ,
- doth take off ,
- doth take-off ,
- doth takeoff ,
- in vent ,
- in vented ,
- in venting ,
- in vents ,
- in-vent ,
- in-vented ,
- in-venting ,
- in-vents ,
- phonied ,
- phonying ,
- re plicate ,
- re plicated ,
- re plicates ,
- re plicating ,
- re produced ,
- re produces ,
- re producing ,
- re-plicate ,
- re-plicated ,
- re-plicates ,
- re-plicating ,
- re-produce ,
- re-produced ,
- re-produces ,
- re-producing .
Other synonyms:
- face .
- semblance .
- acting .
- put on .
- sham .
- act .
Other relevant words:
- Cribbed ,
- Cribbing ,
- Gloze ,
- Glozing ,
- Miscolor ,
- Misreport ,
- Overdrawing ,
- Overdrawn ,
- Palmed ,
- Palming ,
- Pirated ,
- Pirating ,
- Secreted ,
- Snowed ,
- Snowing ,
- Whited ,
- Whites ,
- act like ,
- apologize for ,
- blot out ,
- blotted out ,
- blotting out ,
- clothe ,
- do a take-off ,
- do a takeoff ,
- do like ,
- doctor ,
- dope up ,
- fake ,
- give snow job ,
- give the lie to ,
- gloss ,
- gloss over ,
- glossed over ,
- go into hiding ,
- go underground ,
- hide ,
- hide out ,
- hole up ,
- juggle ,
- keep from ,
- keep quiet ,
- keep secret ,
- keep to oneself ,
- keep under wraps ,
- keeping to oneself ,
- kept secret ,
- lay low ,
- lie low ,
- lock up ,
- locked up ,
- locking up ,
- lying low ,
- made light of ,
- make light of ,
- mis-report ,
- miscoloring ,
- misinterpret ,
- misquote ,
- misquotes ,
- misreported ,
- misreporting ,
- misrepresent ,
- misstate ,
- mix with ,
- mixed with ,
- not give away ,
- not tell ,
- not told ,
- obscure ,
- overdraw ,
- palliate ,
- palm ,
- palms ,
- phony up ,
- playact ,
- prettified ,
- prettifies ,
- prettify ,
- prettifying ,
- put on act ,
- put out of the way ,
- put up a front ,
- screen ,
- secrete ,
- simulate ,
- simulated ,
- smooth over ,
- soft pedal ,
- spoofed ,
- spoofing ,
- spread it on ,
- spread on ,
- stash away ,
- stashed away ,
- stow away ,
- sweep under rug ,
- take cover ,
- take out of context ,
- taking cover ,
- tamper with ,
- tampered with ,
- tampering with ,
- tampers with ,
- throw a curve ,
- trump up ,
- tuck away ,
- tucked away ,
- veil ,
- warp ,
- weighted ,
- weighting ,
- whiting .
- Appareling ,
- Apparelled ,
- Apparelling ,
- Breeching ,
- Caparisoning ,
- Dandifying ,
- Habiting ,
- Jacketed ,
- Jacketing ,
- Liveries ,
- Mantling ,
- Robing ,
- Spruced ,
- Sprucing ,
- appareled ,
- bedizen ,
- bedizened ,
- bedizening ,
- bedizens ,
- bedrape ,
- breech ,
- breeched ,
- breeches ,
- bundle up ,
- bundling up ,
- caparisoned ,
- costumed ,
- costuming ,
- dandified ,
- dandifies ,
- dandify ,
- dizen ,
- enwrap ,
- fit out ,
- fitted out ,
- fitting out ,
- gowned ,
- gowning ,
- habilitate ,
- habilitated ,
- habilitates ,
- habilitating ,
- habited ,
- liveried ,
- livery ,
- mantled ,
- raimented ,
- raimenting ,
- robed ,
- spruces ,
- suit up ,
- suited up ,
- togged ,
- togging .
- Canopying ,
- Curtaining ,
- Hooded ,
- Hooding ,
- Housed ,
- Layering ,
- Shrouded ,
- Superposed ,
- Superposing ,
- board up ,
- bush up ,
- canopied ,
- carpeted ,
- carpeting ,
- cover up ,
- covered up ,
- covering up ,
- covers up ,
- curtained ,
- do on the sly ,
- encase ,
- encases ,
- encasing ,
- ensconce ,
- enshrouded ,
- layered ,
- over spread ,
- overcast ,
- overcasting ,
- overspread ,
- overspreading ,
- overspreads ,
- set on ,
- shrouding ,
- super-imposed ,
- superpose ,
- superposes .
- alias ,
- coverup ,
- deception ,
- deceptive covering ,
- faking ,
- false front ,
- makeup ,
- pen name ,
- pseudonym ,
- smoke screen .
- Befogging ,
- GRAYS ,
- Gloomed ,
- Hazed ,
- Hazing ,
- Muddy Waters ,
- Muddying ,
- be cloud ,
- befog ,
- befogged ,
- befogs ,
- blinded ,
- blinding ,
- cloud the issue ,
- fuzzed ,
- fuzzing ,
- glooming ,
- grayed ,
- graying ,
- muddied ,
- muddies ,
- muddy the waters ,
- murked ,
- murking ,
- obfuscate ,
- overcloud ,
- overclouded ,
- overclouding ,
- overclouds ,
- throw up smoke screen .
- Double dealing ,
- Manteau ,
- Manteaux ,
- capote ,
- capotes ,
- charade ,
- cleanup ,
- cleanups ,
- cloak ,
- color ,
- concealment ,
- cop-out ,
- cop-outs ,
- copout ,
- cover ,
- cover story ,
- domino ,
- dominoes ,
- dominos ,
- evasion ,
- excuse ,
- facade ,
- false face ,
- front ,
- frown ,
- guise ,
- impudence ,
- jive ,
- jives ,
- lineament ,
- lineaments ,
- make-believe ,
- map ,
- mask ,
- mis-statement ,
- misstatement ,
- pantomime ,
- pantomimes ,
- perjury ,
- phonies ,
- physiognomy ,
- pretension ,
- public image ,
- put-on ,
- seeming ,
- seemings ,
- stopgap ,
- va ,
- vas ,
- why and wherefore .
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How to use "Disguise" in context?
Disguise is a habit or behavior that people wear to hide their true identity. Disguises can be done in many different ways and can be used for many different purposes. Disguises can be used to disguise which parts of the body are being used to make the gesture or sound, to disguise the speaker's voice, or to disguise the nature of the object being talked about. Disguise can also be used to deceive others about the true identity of the speaker.
Paraphrases for Disguise:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
camouflage.
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Verb, base form
camouflage, conceal.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
guise.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
getup.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Disguise:
- degas, dec, doggo, deutzia, dts, duchy, duck, dec 25, dishy, daucus, decoy, doss, dacca, dag, desk, decius, 365 days, dock, dace, ds, deuce, degauss, dj, dead sea, dash, dago, disuse, dodge, 366 days, decay, duteous, DECO, DC, dika, dosage, dice, detach, dicky, DCI, discase, dioecious, deuce-ace, discuss, dodgy, dig, disa, deck, disc, dug, duds, deice, dyadic, diss, doggie, day watch, detusk, dog house, dds, dowse, De Sica, digs, dead duck, dyaus, dick, dockage, dacha, degage, doze, dhak, dak, detick, decease, dish, diathesis, daisy, discus, de-ice, dais, disk cache, diocese, duchess, dixie, disease, dec 24, dike, de-access, DTIC, Dhaka, dogie, duck sauce, desex, Dutch Hoe, des, dosshouse, dough, doge, dawes, dusky, doggy, dukas, dizzy, death house, doghouse, dos, duse, dog show, diaz, dg, doughy, daze, deixis, dkg, death tax, deeds, do the dishes, d.c., dog, dyke, dickie, doxy, disco, duke, DoJ, daishiki, duck's egg, disk, deathwatch, detox, dashiki, dachsie, dagga, dekko, ducky, dutch, doohickey, dickey, disk jockey, dotage, dhegiha, disk access, douche, days, disc-jockey, dicey, disk-jockey, dusk, Diesis, dias, dozy, dehisce, death wish, dietetics, dassie, duce, deduce, DoJC, disc jockey, decoke, deck-house, ditch, doc, dachau, dizygous, douse, dogy, dyschezia, dis, dix, dietetic, das, dose, diazo.
Hyponym for Disguise:
n.
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concealing, hiding, concealment.
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