Antonyms:
| alike, | homogeneous, | identical, | like, | pure, | same, | similar, | uniform. |
HIDE.
Synonyms:
| bury, | cover, | entomb, | overwhelm, | suppress, |
| cloak, | disguise, | inter, | screen, | veil. |
| conceal, | dissemble, | mask, | secrete. |
Hide is the general term, including all the rest, signifying to put out of sight or beyond ready observation or approach; a thing may be hidden by intention, by accident, or by the imperfection of the faculties of the one from whom it is hidden; in their games, children hide the slipper, or hide themselves from each other; a man unconsciously hides a picture from another by standing before it, or hides a thing from himself by laying something else over it. Even an unconscious object may hide another; as, a cloud hides the sun, or a building hides some part of the prospect by intervening between it and the observer's position. As an act of persons, to conceal is always intentional; one may hide his face in anger, grief, or abstraction; he conceals his face when he fears recognition. A house is hidden by foliage; the bird's nest is artfully concealed. Secrete is a stronger word than conceal, and is used chiefly of such material objects as may be separated from the person, or from their ordinary surroundings,[198] and put in unlooked-for places; a man conceals a scar on his face, but does not secrete it; a thief secretes stolen goods; an officer may also be said to secrete himself to watch the thief. A thing is covered by putting something over or around it, whether by accident or design; it is screened by putting something before it, always with some purpose of protection from observation, inconvenience, attack, censure, etc. In the figurative use, a person may hide honorable feelings; he conceals an evil or hostile intent. Anything which is effectually covered and hidden under any mass or accumulation is buried. Money is buried in the ground; a body is buried in the sea; a paper is buried under other documents. Whatever is buried is hidden or concealed; but there are many ways of hiding or concealing a thing without burying it. So a person may be covered with wraps, and not buried under them. Bury may be used of any object, entomb and inter only of a dead body. Figuratively, one may be said to be buried in business, in study, etc. Compare [IMMERSE]; [PALLIATE].
Antonyms:
| admit, | disclose, | exhume, | manifest, | show, |
| advertise, | discover, | expose, | promulgate, | tell, |
| avow, | disinter, | lay bare, | publish, | uncover, |
| betray, | divulge, | lay open, | raise, | unmask, |
| confess, | exhibit, | make known, reveal, | unveil. |