Veiled

Definitions: Veiled

Veiled

Adjective

1. Having or as if having a veil or concealing cover; "a veiled dancer"; "a veiled hat"; "veiled threats"; "veiled insults" ; "the night-veiled landscape".

2. Muted or unclear; "veiled sounds"; "the image is veiled or foggy".

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

Date "veiled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: Veiled

Veiled Aristocrats (1932)

The Veiled Woman (1929)

Veiled Threat (1989)

The Veiled One (1989)

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Books

• A Veiled Gazelle: Seeing How to See [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

• A Veiled Journey (reference)

• A Veiled Reflection (Westward Chronicles, 3) (reference)

• Jackson's and Veiled Chameleons (Reptile Keeper's Guide) (reference)

• The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Agatha Christie's:The Veiled Lady (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Veiled (reference)

• Veiled Sisters (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A knife-edge ridge on Kauai on the Na Pali coast. The ridge looms over the Kalalau Valley which is veiled in shadows in the lower fourth of the picture.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, seated, three-quarter length portrait, wearing veiled hat and holding book, facing slightly right.Credit: Library of Congress.

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In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation. (reference)

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But it was very mild, and veiled in an ineffable twilight.

The veiled autumnal evenings led him from street to street as they had led him years before along the quiet avenues of Blackrock.

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Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

In the past, Babajanov and his former employees have been subjected to harassment and veiled threats by police. (references)

Uzbekistan

However, authorities are highly suspicious of those who are particularly devout, including frequent mosque attendees, bearded men, and veiled women. (references)

Economic History

Zimbabwe

Employing intimidation, violence and kidnapping directed at mostly white management, the invasions, other than attempting to win the hearts and minds of urban workers, were in most cases thinly veiled extortion attempts. (references)

Political Rights

Gambia

They also accused the Government of issuing threats, both explicit and veiled, against individuals and communities that did not support the incumbent. (references)

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

Expressions using "veiled": veiled accusation ♦ veiled in secrecy ♦ veiled plate. Additional references.

Ending with "veiled": thinly-veiled.

Albanian

i mbuluar (bedimmed, clothed, coated, covered, covert, sheeted, vaulted, vestured, wreathed), i maskuar (covert, masked), i fshehtë (backdoor, clandestine, close, colorable, colourable, confidential, cryptic, dark, deep, deep-seated, elfish, elvish, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, insidious, internal, latent, occult, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unearthly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقنع (cogent, convincing, disguised, in disguise, masked, masqueraded, persuasive), ‏متلثم, ‏خفي (covert, cryptic, disguised, hidden, invisible, mysterious, occult, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, ulterior, unseen). (various references)

Chinese 

以面纱遮掩 (Veiling). (various references)

Dutch

verstolen (secret), verholen, verborgen (hidden, saphenous, secret), steels, heimelijk (secretly), heimelýk (clandestinely, secret, secretly), bedekt (covered). (various references)

Esperanto

kaŝa. (various references)

Finnish

hämärin sanoin (in veiled language). (various references)

French

voilé. (various references)

German

verschleiert (blurred, filmy, foggy, hazy, husky, misty, shrouded, veils), verschleierte. (various references)

Greek 

κεκαλυμμένοσ, προσχηματικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מצועף (filmy, shrouded), רעול. (various references)

Hungarian

palástolt, leplezett, lepellel letakart, lepellel borított, fátyolos (filmy), fátyollal letakart, fátyollal borított, elfátyolozott, burkolt (covert, hooded, implied, insinuating, muffled, oblique). (various references)

Italian

velato (bleary, dull, filmy). (various references)

Korean 

덮�" (Blanketed, Covered). (various references)

Manx

keillit (cloaked, concealed, covert, furtive, hidden, secreted, underground), follit (blind, blind of turning, bottled up, clandestine, classified, concealed, covert, cryptic, etc., etc.), hidden, hush-hush, latent, private, private and confidential, secret, secreted, underground). (various references)

Pig Latin

eiledvay

Polish

skryty. (various references)

Romanian

acoperit cu voal. (various references)

Russian 

едва скрываемая угроза (thinly veiled threat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokriven velom. (various references)

Spanish

velado (blurring, breathy, dull, fog, fogging, foggy, thick). (various references)

Swedish

förtäckt (covert, indirect, oblique). (various references)

Turkish

yaşmaklı, peçeli, kısık (choked, dimmer, flat, guttural, hoarse, husky, pinched, raucous), örtülü (buried, clad, coated, covered, covert, mantled, masked, muffled, shut, submerged, submersed, thick with, under cover, wrapped). (various references)

Ukranian 

хриплуватий, закритий покривалом, прихований (arcane, blind, bosomed, close, closet, concealed, covert, cryptic, delitescent, furtive, glossy, hideaway, latent, obscure, obumbrate, occulted, privy, secret, stealthy, ulterior, underneath). (various references)

Vietnamese 

che mạng bị che, bị phủ úp mở; che đậy. (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 "veiled": veiledly. (additional references)

Words ending with "veiled": unveiled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Veiled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eiled, evoled, vailed, valide, Vasilev, veale, veild, veile, veileds, veilo, velad, velde, veliger, vemiled, venile, vesled, Vieilles, vieled, vilde. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: levied.

-1 letter: delve, devel, devil, edile, elide, lieve, lived.

-2 letters: deil, dele, deli, diel, dive, eide, evil, idle, lied, live, veil, veld, vide, vied, vile.

-3 letters: dee, del, dev, die, eel, eld, eve, led, lee, lei, lev, lid, lie, vee, vie.

-4 letters: de, ed, el, id, li.

+1 letter: bedevil, deliver, deviled, livened, relived, reviled.

+2 letters: bedevils, bedrivel, believed, delivers, delivery, delusive, desilver, develing, devilled, dishevel, dovelike, driveled, driveler, evadible, evildoer, liveried, medieval, overidle, relieved, silvered, slivered, sniveled, swiveled, unlevied, unveiled, veiledly, vendible, weeviled.

+3 letters: bedeviled, bedrivels, daredevil, deleaving, delivered, deliverer, depletive, derivable, desilvers, devilment, devilries, devisable, dishevels, diversely, driveable, drivelers, driveline, drivelled, eluviated, enlivened, evidently, evildoers, inveigled, javelined, levigated, levitated, mediaeval, medievals, novelised, novelized, overlived, overplied, prevailed, reavailed, redeliver, replevied, shriveled, snivelled, swivelled, televised, velarized, vendibles, videlicet, vowelized.

+4 letters: adhesively, alleviated, bedeviling, bedevilled, bedriveled, cavaliered, daredevils, deceivable, decemviral, decisively, deflective, deliverers, deliveries, delivering, delusively, derisively, desilvered, developing, devilments, deviltries, devitalize, devocalize, disbelieve, disheveled, divulgence, dovetailed, drivelines, driverless, evidential, mediaevals, medievally, misdevelop, outdeliver, overbilled, overboiled, overfilled, overgilded, overkilled, overmilked, overtoiled, privileged, pulverised, pulverized, redelivers, redelivery, redissolve, relievedly, replevined, resilvered, revalidate, shrivelled, silverside, silverweed, surveilled, televiewed, unrelieved, vaudeville, velocipede, ventilated, verbalized, vernalized, vestibuled, videophile, vilipended, vinylidene.

+5 letters: adjectively, aggrievedly, bedevilling, bedevilment, bedriveling, bedrivelled, bolshevized, daredevilry, deceivingly, deceptively, declarative, declivities, deductively, defectively, defensively, delineative, deliverable, deliverance, deliveryman, deliverymen, desilvering, devilfishes, devitalized, devitalizes, devocalized, devocalizes, digestively, disbelieved, disbeliever, disbelieves, disheveling, dishevelled, divergently, divulgences, elucidative, evangelized, interleaved, lavendering, livetrapped, lividnesses, medievalism, medievalist, mendelevium, misbelieved, misdevelops, nondelivery, outdelivers, overchilled, overclaimed, overindulge, overlending, overlighted, overplaided, overslipped, predelivery, premedieval, redelivered, redissolved, redissolves, reductively, relativized, revalidated, revalidates, revalorized, revictualed, revitalised, revitalized, seductively, silversides, silverweeds, undelivered, vaudevilles, velocipedes, vesiculated, videophiles, vinylidenes, volkslieder.

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