Conceal

Definition: Conceal

Conceal

Verb

1. Prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide their faces".

2. Hold back; keep from being perceived by others, as of emotions or expressions of emotions; "She conceals her anger well".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "conceal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Conceal \Con*ceal"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Concealed; present participle verb or noun Concealing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Conceal

Concealment

Verb: conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle up.

Covering

Overlie, overarch; endome; conceal.

Perfection

Phr. " let us go on unto perfection "; " the perfection of art is to conceal art ".

Unintelligibility

Render unintelligible; Adjective: conceal; darken; confuse; (derange); perplex; (bewilder)

Crosswords: Conceal

Well, possible motives for murder are profit, revenge, jealousy, to conceal a crime, to avoid humiliation, or plain old homicidal mania. (The General's Daughter; writing credit: Christopher Bertolini)

They conceal information like that in books. (Lake Placid; writing credit: David E. Kelley)

What makes you think you have to conceal it? (North by Northwest; writing credit: Ernest Lehman)

Conceal ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal. (Like a Rolling Stone; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

Girl c'mon, follow me, and bust back at police, conceal ya heat (Down Ass Bitch; performing artist: Ja Rule)

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Books

• Confess and conceal = Mengakui dan Menutupi [(romanized form)] : 11 insights from contemporary Australia and South-east Asia (reference)

• Cover-Up: The Governmental Conspiracy to Conceal the Facts About the Public Execution of John Kennedy (reference)

• Enron: An Accounting Analysis of How SPEs Were Used to Conceal Debt and Avoid Losses (reference)

• Fdr's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive Disability-And the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Public (reference)

• Manufacturing Numbers: How Inaccurate Statistics Conceal U. S. Industrial Decline (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Conceal It for The Palm OS Win & Palm (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the USS California settles slowly into the mud and muck of Pearl Harbor. Clouds of black, oily smoke pouring up from the California and her stricken sister ships conceal all but. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. (reference)

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It was merely a blind to conceal his real situation with another.

My Lady turned her head away to conceal the broad grin of triumph that spread over her vast face, like a ripple on a lake.

It was clear that he was trying to conceal himself, and that there was something mysterious in his operations.

Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend As closely to conceal what we impart.

But when he heard my voice, and found what I delivered to be regular and rational, he could not conceal his astonishment.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Some individuals may not be aware of their genetic legacy, or a family member may conceal a genetic disorder from fear of social stigma. (references)

Human Rights

Kazakhstan

In August a military officer was convicted of beating to death a 20-year-old private in the border patrol; the officer attempted to conceal the beating and claimed that the death was the result of a snakebite. (references)

Political Economy

Iraq

Human rights abuses remain difficult to document because of the Government's efforts to conceal the facts, including its prohibition on the establishment of independent human rights organizations, its persistent refusal to grant visits to human rights monitors, and its continued restrictions designed to prevent dissent. (references)

Trade

Cyprus

A sticker with a Greek translation on the product is acceptable, provided it does not conceal the original label and it has the approval of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism. (references)

Worker Rights

Benin

However, the children who left "for other reasons" may conceal an additional number of trafficked children and bring the number close to 80,000. Of the trafficked children, 61 percent were boys and 39 percent were girls. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "conceal": conceal oneself ♦ conceal smth. from smb.. Additional references.

Albanian

zhduk (bump off, disperse, efface, eradicate, hide, kill, obliterate, overturn, Rob, stave off, steal, wipe, wipe out), mbaj të fshehtë (black out, hide, secrete), fsheh (Bury, cache, cloak, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, enshroud, Harbor, harbour, hide, hide away, obscure, plant, screen, secrete, sink, stash, veil, withhold, wrap up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتم (concealment, harbor, harbour, hide, hiding, repress, restrain, secrete, subdue, suppress, withhold), ‏أخفى (cloak, cover up, harbor, harbour, hid, hill, hush, keep, obscure, obstruct, palm, receive, secrete, shelter, smother, stash, stow, suppress, wrap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скривам (cache, dissemble, enshroud, hide, hoard, hold back, obscure, plant, put back, screen, secrete, sink, stash, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), крия (hid, hide, keep away from), замаскирвам (mask, veil), прикривам (clothe, cover, disguise, fog, hide, hide away, sink, varnish), потулвам (blanket, clamp, hugger mugger, hush up, smother up, stifle, suppress, sweep under the carpet). (various references)

Chinese 

隐�' (Concealed, Concealing), 隱�"� (covert, under cover), 包藏 (contain, harbor), 掩�"� (cover up, hide behind), 暗藏 (hide), 昧 (dark), 侜 (to cover), 伏 (prostrate, submit). (various references)

Czech

zatajit (hide, hold back, suppress), zastírat (veil), zamlèet (suppress), ukrýt (hide, lock up, secrete, shelter), skrývat (Harbor, harbour, hide, shield), skrýt (hide, mantle, obscure, pocket). (various references)

Danish

skjulle (hide), gemme (hide). (various references)

Dutch

verhelen (hide), verbergen (hide), ontveinzen (hide). (various references)

Esperanto

kaŝi (hide). (various references)

Faeroese

krógva (hide), fjala (cover, hide), dylja (hide). (various references)

Farsi 

پنهان کردن (Cache, Cloak, Closet, Cover, Disguise, Dissemble, Dissimulate, Eloign, Hide, Mask, Secrete, Shadow, Wrap), نهفتن (Closet, Hide), نهان کردن . (various references)

Finnish

piilottaa (hide, shelter). (various references)

French

cacher (cover, cover up). (various references)

Frisian

ferbergje (hide). (various references)

German

verbergen (burrow, Bury, cover, dissemble, Harbor, harbour, hide, hold back, mask, secrete, secretion, to burrow, to bury, to conceal, to dissemble, veil), verstecken (cache, encryption, ensconce, hide, hide away, hole up, occuring, shelter, stash, to cache, to ensconce, to hide, to stash), verheimlichen (dissimulate, hide, hold back, keep secret, to dissimulate, veil), verhehlen (hide). (various references)

Greek 

κρύβω (cache, conceal from, cover, cover up, delie, hide, obscure). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכסות (cover, hide, muffle, shroud, span, strew), ל�"עלים (hide), ל�"חביא (cover up, hide, put away, secrete), ל�"סוות (camouflage, disguise, hide, mask, shush), ל�'� וז (hide, shelve, stash, store), לטמון (hide), לסתום (choke, clog, close up, plug, shut, stop, stop up, wad). (various references)

Hungarian

visszavon (back down, revoke, take back, to annul, to cry off, to recall, to recant, to repeal, to rescind, to retract, to revoke, to set back, to take back, unsay, withdraw), palástol (to cover, to disguise, to extenuate, to wrap), eltitkol (dissemble, hold back, to conceal, to hold back, to keep from, to suppress, to wrap), elrejt (disguise, ensconce, hid, hidden, hide, hide away, obscure, secrete, smother, to cache, to conceal, to disguise, to eloign, to enshroud, to hide, to recess, to screen, to secrete, to shelter, to smother up, to squirrel away, to stash, vail). (various references)

Indonesian

menyembunyikan (dissemble, ensconce, hide, withhold), membungkus (bundle, encase, enfold, envelop, wrap up). (various references)

Italian

nascondere (be hidden, blind, block, cache, cloak, encryption, ensconce, hide, mask, obscure, occult, occuring, pocket, screen, secrete, shroud, tuck away, withhold), occultare (hide, occult, suppress). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

被う (to conceal, to cover, to disguise, to hide, to wrap), 覆う (to conceal, to cover, to disguise, to hide, to wrap). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおう (to conceal, to cover, to disguise, to hide, to wrap), おしかくす (to conceal, to cover up), しのぶ (to conceal oneself, to endure, to hide, to recollect, to remember), しのばせる (to conceal, to hide), くるむ (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to conceal, to cover with, to do up, to dress in, to pack, to tuck in, to wrap up), ひそめる (to conceal, to frown, to grimace, to hide, to knit the brows, to raise eyebrows, to scowl), つつむ (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to conceal, to cover with, to do up, to dress in, to pack, to tuck in, to wrap up), つつみかくす (to conceal, to cover up, to keep secret), かくす (to conceal, to hide), かくれる (to be hidden, to conceal oneself, to disappear, to hide), もぐり�"む (to conceal oneself, to crawl into, to slip into). (various references)

Korean 

은폐하십시�". (various references)

Manx

keiltyn (concealment, cover, cover up, disguise, dissimulate, dissimulation, harbour, hide, renege, shelter, sneak, suppress, suppression, veil, veneer), follaghtyn (burke, concealment, disguise, hide, mask, muffle, veneer), follaghey (bo-peep, cache, cover up, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, dissimulation, hide, hiding, muffle, occult, occultation, secrecy, secrete, veil). (various references)

Pig Latin

oncealcay

Polish

chować, ukrywać. (various references)

Portuguese

ocultar (bury, cache, couch, cover, hide, hugger-mugger, occult, sconce, screen, secrete, smother), esconder (bescreen, cache, dissemble, dodge, ensconce, enshroud, hide, hold back, hugger-mugger, occult, pocket, screen, secrete, stash, suppress, tuck). (various references)

Romanian

ascunde (cloak, Cork, cover, curtain, cushion, disguise, dissemble, ensconce, enwrap, hide, hood, hugger mugger, keep away, keep back, mask, put away, put by, screen, secrete, shroud, smooth, tuck, tuck away, veil, wrap). (various references)

Russian 

скрывать (cloak, cover, disguise, dissemble, hide, hold back, keep, keep back). (various references)

Scottish

ceil (hide), sg� il (a shade, overshadow, shade, shadow, veil). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sakriti (hide, stash), prikriti (cover up, dissimulate, hush up). (various references)

Spanish

ocultar (blot out, blur out, Bury, cache, cloak, cover, dissemble, fade, Harbor, harbour, hide, hide away, hold back, hold out, keep back, keep from, mask, occult, secrete, shroud, slur, slur over, tuck away). (various references)

Swedish

gömma (cache, ensconce, hide, hiding, hiding place, secrete, shelter, stash), dölja (cloak, cover, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, hide, occult, plant, screen, shroud, veil, veils). (various references)

Thai

ปกปิ�" (hush, hush up). (various references)

Turkish

saklamak (blind, Bury, cloak, disguise, enshrine, harvest, hide, hold back, keep back, keep smth. quiet, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, lay down, obscure, plant, put by, put out of sight, screen, secrete, shelter, stash, stash away, stow away, suffuse, tuck away), gizlemek (blot out, bottle up, Bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, cover up, disguise, dissemble, draw a veil over, enshroud, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep back, keep from, keep in dark, keep in one's bosom, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, mask, obscure, plant, pocket, screen, secrete, sheathe, shroud, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), örtmek (blanket, canopy, cap, carpet, case, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, coat, condone, cope, cover, cover up, encase, enshroud, envelop, hood, incase, lap, robe, screen, shade, sheet, shield, shroud, shut, submerge, wrap), örtbas etmek (blanket, cloak, compound, cover up, explain away, gloss, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep smth. quiet, obscure, palliate, paper, sink, smother up, suppress, sweep under the carpet, veneer, wash out, whitewash). (various references)

Turkmen 

яygюyrmak (hide), lak bolmak (keep a secret), jaяlamak (bury, hide), gizlenmek (put away), bukmak (hide away). (various references)

Ukrainian

ховати (bield, cover, embowel, entomb, hide, hide away, hide up, inter, lay to rest, put away, secrete, shut up, stash, tomb, tuck), затаювати (cherish, cover), замовчувати (elide, hush up, slur, suppress, withhold), приховувати (becloud, blind, cache, cloak, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, obumbrate, palliate, put by, salt away, stash away, subduct, veil, vizor, wry). (various references)

Welsh

cuddio (hide). (various references)

kaluptein. (various references)

abdere, abdi, abdiam, abditis, abdito, abdo, abscondere, abscondo, abstruserit, celabit, celabo, celabuntur, celandus, celare, celari, celat, celata, celatae, celatas, celatura, celaturae, celaturas, celaturis, celaverimus, celaverint, celaveris, celavi, celavit, celes, celo, concelare, condasque, condat, condatur, condentur, condere, conderet, condiderunt, condidit, condita, conditae, condite, condito, conditor, conditorum, conditum, conditus, condunt, dissimulabat, dissimulante, dissimularet, dissimulata, dissimulaverit, dissimulavi, obscura, obscurabitur, obscurabuntur, obscuraretur, obscurat, obscuratae, obscurati, obscuratum, obscuratus, obscuraverit, obscuravit, obscurent, obscurentur, obscuro, obteguntur, obtendere, obtenebrata, obtenebrati, obtenebratus, obtenebrentur, obtentu, obtexit, obumbrabit, obumbrans, obumbrantia, obumbrasti, obumbraverunt, obumbravit, occulta, occultabat, occultabitur, occultantem, occultasset, occultata, occultatum, occultatus, occultavit, occulte, occultes, occultis, occulto, occultos, occultum, occultus, tego, tego texi tectum, tego, texi, tectum, texi, vela, velabant, velabat, velabis, velabitis, velantium, velare, velatam, velato, velatum, velatur, velaverunt, velet. (various references)

behydan, deagan, gehydan. (various references)

conceler, muchier. (various references)

cacher. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "conceal": concealable, concealed, concealer, concealers, concealing, concealingly, concealment, concealments, conceals. (additional references)

Words containing "conceal": unconcealed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conceal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bonjela, Cancale, carceral, cincpac, cocea, Coceral, coenwealh, concacaf, concal, concea, conceil, concial, conciel, concile, concill, conciola, concol, coneral, conjeal, conseal, Coucal, councial, Donjela, Konchak, Monceau, ponceau, Poncela, Ronceval. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cancel.

-2 letters: alone, anole, canoe, cecal, clean, clone, lance, ocean.

-3 letters: acne, aeon, alec, aloe, calo, cane, ceca, clan, clon, coal, coca, cola, cole, cone, elan, enol, lace, lane, lean, leno, loan, loca, lone, noel, olea, once.

-4 letters: ace, ale, ane, can, cel, col, con, eon, lac, lea, nae, oca, ole, one.

-5 letters: ae, al.

+1 letter: conceals, conclave.

+2 letters: chalcogen, chloracne, cochineal, concealed, concealer, conclaves, covalence, covalency, cyclopean.

+3 letters: calcinoses, cancellous, chalcedony, chalcogens, chancellor, chloracnes, cladoceran, coalescent, coalescing, cochineals, coelacanth, complacent, compliance, concealers, concealing, conceptual, conciliate, convalesce, covalences, economical, lactogenic, neoclassic, occidental, uncoalesce.

+4 letters: accelerando, accessional, accountable, adolescence, anecdotical, anticyclone, cancelation, cancerously, chalcedonic, chameleonic, chancellors, chancellory, cladocerans, coalescence, coelacanths, collectanea, collenchyma, commonplace, complacence, complacency, compliances, concealable, concealment, conceivable, conceivably, conceptacle, conciliated, conciliates, confiscable, conjectural, connectable, contractile, convalesced, convalesces, covalencies, cyclazocine, cyclohexane, macronuclei, melancholic, narcoleptic, neocortical, nonchalance, nonchemical, nonclerical, oecumenical, opalescence, uncoalesced, uncoalesces, unconcealed.