conceal

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He took great pains to conceal from the Dutch the paucity of our numbers, and hinted that as long as the inhabitants behaved themselves he would keep his troops on board instead of quartering them on the town.

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  1. transitive verb To keep from being seen, found, observed, or discovered; hide. See Synonyms at hide1.

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  • We have nothing to conceal from the English, for it would be the greatest possible folly to antagonize England'—is to be found one main point of Bismarck's diplomacy; and feeling thus, he welcomed a conference with the English statesman of that generation whom he had looked upon as certain to be a force in the approaching years. —  The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2
  • Sir Charles's talk with Frenchmen was unrestrained; as Bismarck felt of England, so he of France: 'We have nothing to conceal from the French; they are our natural allies.' —  The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2
  • "So the prosecution can lie and conceal, and the defense still has the burden to discover the evidence?" challenged Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. —  The StandDown Texas Project
  • It is only a matter that Democrats like Majority Leader Hoyer can attempt to conceal, as he does in the statement quoted above, by misleading the public about how hard the Democratic leadership actually tried. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • Barack Obama is simply the tip of this iceberg which he desperately must conceal, along with all these other benefactors or beyond embarrassment, people will go to prison. —  Latest Articles
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  1. Middle English concelen, from Old French conceler, from Latin concēlāre : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + cēlāre, to hide; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English concelen, conceilen, from Old French conceler, cunceler, concheler, from Latin concelare, hide, from com-, together, + celare (later F. celer = Provencal celar = Spanish celar = Portuguese calar = Italian celare), hide, = Anglo-Saxon helan, English heal, hide, cover: see heal.
 

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