Synonyms for hide


Grammar : Verb
Spell : hahyd
Phonetic Transcription : haɪd

Top 10 synonyms for hide Other synonyms for the word hide

Définition of hide

Origin :
  • Old English hydan "to hide, conceal; preserve; hide oneself; bury a corpse," from West Germanic *hudjan (cf. Middle Dutch, Middle Low German huden), from PIE *keudh- (cf. Greek keuthein "to hide, conceal"), from root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)). Hide and seek (by 1670s), children's game, replaced earlier all hid (1580s).
  • verb conceal; remain unseen
Example sentences :
  • At any rate, I won't be coward enough to try to hide it from her.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • Nothing save a rich garment could ever hide the plague-spot.
  • Extract from : « The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Even for Mammon's sake Mr. Raymount was not the man to hide or mask his opinions.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Of course it must be the same thing that made him take to the garret and hide there!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • And found out he is sure to be; he has not the brains to hide a thing!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Even had Shakespeare tried to hide himself in his work, he could not have succeeded.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Once he got a catalogue from an installment house, and tried to hide it from her.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Fretted by the pain, he plunged into the wilderness to hide like a wounded deer.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • But I tried to listen and answer that I might hide from John my tumult.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • He'd hide me somewhere outside the city, he'd bury alive the most lovely of women.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

Antonyms for hide

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