In Secret

Definition: In Secret

In Secret

Adverb

1. In secrecy; not openly; "met secretly to discuss the invasion plans"; "the children secretly went to the movies when they were supposed to be at the library"; "they arranged to meet in secret".

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Synonyms: In Secret

Concealment

Adverb: secretly; Adjective: in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners; in the dark; Adjective:

Crosswords: In Secret

Face to face in secret places, feel the chill. (A View to a Kill; performing artist: Duran Duran)

Loves Comes in Secret (performing artist: The Skip Heller Generation)

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He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and testing its mortifying flavour in secret.

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Civil Liberties

Pakistan

While there is no law establishing the Koranic death penalty for apostates (those who convert from Islam), social pressure against apostasy is so powerful that most such conversions take place in secret. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

Military courts may hold treason trials in secret. (references)

Libya

Such trials often are held in secret or even in the absence of the accused. (references)

Political Economy

Western Sahara

Many of those who disappeared were held in secret detention camps. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

The mobile unit operates in secret to avoid alerting estate owners and ranch managers to planned actions, and it conducts raids under the protection of federal police officers. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

According to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the Government never has allowed the registration of unions; as a result, the Equatorial Guinea Trade Union, which was founded in 1990, has been forced to carry out its activities in secret. (references)

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Who lays up treasures in secret

Enemy in secret

Albanian

në të fshehtën, fshehurazi (behind the scenes, furtively, on the sly, secretly, underhand). (various references)

Chinese 

暗中 (in the dark, on the sly, surreptitiously). (various references)

Czech

tajnì (by stealth, confidentially, furtively, in camera, inly, secretly, underhand). (various references)

Finnish

salavihkaa (furtively, on the quiet), salaa (in secrecy, on the sly, secretly, surreptitiously). (various references)

French

secrètement, en secret (in darkness), en cachette. (various references)

German

insgeheim (privily, secretly). (various references)

Greek 

κρυφά (behind one's back, secretly, slinkingly). (various references)

Hungarian

titokban (backstage, by stealth, covertly, furtively, hugger mugger, hugger-mugger, in a corner, inly, on the q. t., on the q.t., on the quiet, on the sly, privily, stealthily, surreptitiously, under the rose, under wraps). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

窃かに (secretly), 秘かに (secretly), 秘中 , 密かに (secretly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひそかに (secretly), ひちゅう. (various references)

Manx

gyn yss (by stealth, clandestinely, covert, on the sly, secretly, surreptitious, surreptitiously, unadvised, unawares, unconsciously, unexpected). (various references)

Pig Latin

inay ecretsay

Romanian

în tainã (under the rose). (various references)

Russian 

втайне (secretly), по секрету (confidentially, under the rose). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tajno (backstage, hugger mugger, incognito, secret: in secret, secretly, sly: on the sly, stilly). (various references)

Swedish

i hemlighet (furtively, secretively, secretly, surreptitiously, underhand). (various references)

Turkish

gizlice (by devious means, by stealth, clandestinely, confidentially, furtively, in privacy, in private, on the quiet, on the sly, secretly, sub rosa, under the counter, under the rose, underground), gizli olarak (backstage, off the record, secretly), gizli bir yerde, el altından (by devious means, by stealth, clandestine, clandestinely, hole-and-corner, on the sly, secretly, slily, sub rosa, surreptitious, under the counter, under the rose, undercover, underhand, underhanded). (various references)

clam, occulte. (various references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: enticers, secretin.

-1 letter: centers, centres, cerites, cistern, cretins, enteric, enticer, entices, entires, entries, recites, retines, sincere, tenrecs, tierces, trienes.

-2 letters: censer, center, centre, cerise, cerite, certes, citers, cretin, enters, entice, entire, erects, estrin, incest, inerts, insect, insert, inters, nereis, nester, nicest, nieces, niters, nitres, recent, recite, renest, rentes, resect, resent, resite, reties, retine, screen, secern.

+1 letter: ceintures, centiares, centuries, cisternae, creatines, enuretics, erections, frenetics, gentrices, incenters, infecters, intersect, iterances, nectaries, neoterics, prentices, prescient, reincites, reinfects, reinjects, reinspect, resecting, resection, secreting, secretins, secretion, sincerest, stenchier, stenciler, stridence, virescent.

+2 letters: ancestries, catenaries, centauries, centralise, centrioles, certainest, christened, coresident, cornetcies, crescentic, directness, dysenteric, eccentrics, energetics, epicenters, estrogenic, excretions, increments, increscent, indiscreet, intercaste, intercedes, intercepts, interfaces, interjects, interlaces, intersects, interspace, interstice, intrenches, iridescent, linecaster, mesenteric, nectarines, princelets, putrescine, quercetins, receptions, rechristen, recipients, refections, reinspects, rejections, resections, resistance, respecting, restricken, reticences, sceptering, scrutineer, secretions, stencilers, stenciller, stridences, syncretise, syncretize, synergetic, thickeners, transience, turgencies, ventricles, ventricose.