disguised 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of disguisednext
as in cloaked

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disguised

2 of 2

verb

past tense of disguise
1
as in camouflaged
to change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity the spies disguised themselves as harmless tourists

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2
as in concealed
to keep secret or shut off from view that investigative reporter usually does a good job of disguising her true motives for interviewing a person

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disguised
  1. concealed
  2. masked
  3. obscured
  4. simulated
  5. covered
  6. indistinguishable
  7. suppressed
  8. recondite
Verb
  • The octopus’ position on the board is concealed, playing cards to bluff about their location, and sneaking around the board trying to grab its food.
    James Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The Wicked café too had a backdrop which resembled the movie set as a screen showing the wizard's mask was partly concealed by a curtain which looked like one from the film.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of concealed
Adjective
  • Police said Thompson was walking from his hotel toward the venue when he was ambushed by a masked gunman around 6:45 a.m.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The 26-year-old's arrest comes after both the New York Police Department and the FBI sought the identity of the masked gunman who shot and killed Thompson outside a Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of masked
Verb
  • But it has been largely obscured by the perpetual closeness of statewide elections here, and the fact that Democrats have been winning them more often than losing them.
    Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
  • This recent run has somewhat obscured the Penguins’ penchant for allowing the first goal.
    Rob Rossi, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of obscured
Verb
  • Depending on the intensity, duration and sequence of those vibrations, sensations such as being tapped, stroked or squeezed can be simulated.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The series of tests, which began in January 2024, simulated the extreme conditions of a launch abort scenario to see how the spacecraft would withstand an emergency event, according to a statement from NASA.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of simulated
Verb
  • And the gentlest of hands picked it up and tucked it into the manger straw, and tucked the baby in beside it, and covered them both with the cloak.
    Karen Zautyk, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Helen, covered in more blood than Carrie at prom, crumples in joy and gratitude.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of covered
Adjective
  • But Kalonymus, the developer, plans to make the hotel rooms indistinguishable from apartments, and rent them out under long-term leases, essentially providing 213 units, beyond what the full density bonus would allow.
    Andrew Keatts, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Products from different companies have become indistinguishable—ChatGPT has much in common with Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok—and firms are under mounting pressure to justify the technology’s tremendous costs.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of indistinguishable
Verb
  • After the Korean War, the dictatorship suppressed those who participated in the human-rights and labor movements, or who called for democracy, by labelling them as Communists.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The final report touted how its work resulted in Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting to Jordan that Facebook improperly bent to pressure from the Biden administration and suppressed content about COVID-19.
    Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of suppressed
Adjective
  • Social Security’s internal workings are so recondite and poorly understood by average voters that numerous possible ways of imposing benefit cuts or otherwise harming the program are hiding in plain sight.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In retrospect, the integer distance problem was waiting for mathematicians who were willing to consider more unruly curves than hyperbolas and then draw on recondite tools from algebraic geometry and number theory to tame them.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
Definition of recondite
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