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Hiding   /hˈaɪdɪŋ/   Listen
Hiding

noun
1.
The activity of keeping something secret.  Synonyms: concealing, concealment.
2.
The state of being hidden.


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"



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"Hiding" Quotes from Famous Books



... you will the Lord Giovanni do?" I burst out, with a scorn that must have puzzled her. "Think you his safety does not give him care enough in the hiding-place to which he has crept, that he should draw upon himself the vengeance of ...
— The Shame of Motley • Raphael Sabatini
... moment whether or not he was present when Lynch first learned that things had failed to go his way. At best he might have had a momentary vindictive thrill at glimpsing the fellow's thwarted rage; perhaps not even that, for Tex was uncommonly good at hiding his emotions. It was much more important for him to decide definitely and soon about his own future plans, and this solitary ride over an easy, familiar trail gave him as good a chance as he ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... you for anything, mother! I would not do that for the world—my dear mother! I am only so infinitely distressed and appalled at the thought of your having to go about carrying such a secret with you! Never able to be your real self with me for a moment! Always hiding something! And to have to listen to my praises of what so little deserved praise—to see me putting my faith in him, ...
— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson
... who was still persuaded that great dangers awaited his beloved Prince in the land of France, and determined to use all his cunning to remove him to a place of safety. With this design he had watched the noble lovers from his hiding place, and guided every movement of the Hippogrif by the mere muttering of spells; and by the same means he still steered the creature's course through the air, for he was so powerful an enchanter that he could make his purpose take effect from one end of the earth to the ...
— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various
... spots and small but abrupt precipices here and there, with rivulets tumbling over their edges and wandering down the slopes in little white streams, sometimes glistening among the broad leaves of the bread-fruit and cocoa-nut trees, or hiding altogether beneath the rich underwood. At the base of this mountain lay a narrow bright green plain or meadow, which terminated abruptly at the shore. On the other side of the island, whence we had come, stood the smaller hill, ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne


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