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  1. transitive verb To put or keep out of sight; secrete.
  2. transitive verb To prevent the disclosure or recognition of; conceal: tried to hide the facts.
  3. transitive verb To cut off from sight; cover up: Clouds hid the stars.
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  • And Long Tom, at the hotel, did not dare send a message to Doc telling that the two had disappeared, since such a message would be known at once to Spardoso and Holst Monk and Ham had been in Chinese hide-outs before. —  077 - Merchants of Disaster
  • The shoggoths have no eyes, exactly, but their hide is all eyes; they see, somehow, in every direction at once. —  Asimov'sSF,March2008
  • "The Justice Department will ensure the privilege is not invoked to hide from the American people information about their government's actions that they have a right to know," Miller continued. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • But when translated into English, the same stories go through a sterilization process to hide from the English readers - and possibly from the two Western countries, the Netherlands and Denmark, who give them funding - the terrorist ideology Ma'an is helping to propagate. —  CAMERA Snapshots
  • "Spying is usually done when one party is hiding something, and we know the Iraqi government has nothing to hide from the Americans." —  ModerateVoters.org
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  1. Middle English hiden, from Old English hȳdan; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old English hȳd; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.
  3. Middle English, from Old English hīd; see kei-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hiden, hyden, huden (preterit hidde, hydde, hudde, past participle hid, hud, etc.), from Anglo-Saxon hy¯dan (preterit hy¯dde, past participle hy¯ded, plural contr. hy¯dde), hide, conceal, = Middle Low German hoden, huden, Low German hüden, hüen, ver-hüden, ver-hüen, hide, cover, conceal (also keep, heed, being partly merged in hüden, höden = Anglo-Saxon hēdan, English heed, q. v.); prob. = Greek κεύθειν, hide, = Welsh cuddio, hide, conceal. Cf. Latin custos (for *cudtos?), a guard, protector: see custody. Connected ult. with hide, q. v.
  2. from Middle English hide, hyde, hude, from Anglo-Saxon hy¯d = Old Saxon hūd = OFries. hūd, hede = Dutch huid = Middle Low German hūt = Old High German hūt, Middle High German hūt, German haut = Icelandic hūdh = Swedish Danish hud, skin, hide, = Latin cŭtis, skin (see cutis, cuticle), = Greek κύτος, skin: prob. with orig. initial s, as in Greek σκῡτος, skin, hide, Latin scutum, a shield, the root *sku, cover, being seen also in Greek σκύλος, the hide of a beast, Anglo-Saxon scūa, shade, scúr, English shower, English sky, scum, etc.
  3. from Middle English hyden, cover as with a hide; = Icelandic hūdha, flog; cf. G. freq. häuteln, skin; from the noun hide, skin. The English verb in def. 2 combines the notion of beating or ‘tanning’ one's ‘hide’ with that of whipping with a rawhide or cowhide.
  4. Only as a historical term; Middle English hide, from Middle Latin hida, from Anglo-Saxon hīd, twice uncontr. hīged, hīgid, a certain portion of land; prob. (like the equivalent hīwisc, a hide of land, properly a family, a household) from hīwan, ONorth.hīgan, plural, members of a household, a family: see hewe, hind. The orig. meaning would then be ‘as much land as will support one family,’ the actual number of acres being apparently different at different times and places.
 

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