hiding

hiding
Synonyms and related words:
Waterloo, asylum, beating, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, bolt-hole, burial, burying, cache, cementwork, cloaking, clouding, coating, collapse, concealedness, concealing, concealment, conquering, conquest, corner, cover, coverage, covering, covering up, covert, covertness, coverture, cranny, crash, cubby, cubbyhole, curtaining, dark corner, darkening, deathblow, debacle, deception, defeat, den, destruction, downfall, dressing-down, drubbing, dugout, eclipse, eclipsing, envelopment, enwrapment, enwrapping, failure, fall, foxhole, funk hole, hiddenness, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding place, hole, incrustation, interment, invisibility, lair, lambasting, larruping, lathering, laying on, leathering, licking, mantling, masking, mastery, mystification, niche, nonrevealing, nook, obduction, obscuration, obscurement, obscuring, occultation, overcoming, overlaying, overspreading, overthrow, overturn, paddling, pargeting, plasterwork, putting away, quietus, recess, refuge, retreat, ruin, sanctuary, screening, secrecy, secret place, secretion, sheathing, shielding, shrouding, smash, stash, stuccowork, subdual, subduing, subjugation, subterfuge, superimposition, superposition, tanning, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, uncommunicativeness, undercovert, undisclosing, undoing, unrevealing, upholstering, upholstery, vanquishment, veiling, walloping, whaling, whipping, wrapping

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  • Hiding — (also called abscondence or concealment) is obscuring something from view or rendering it inconspicuous. Hiding may also refer to: Hiding Out, a 1987 movie starring Jon Cryer. A Figure in Hiding , Volume 16 in the original Hardy Boys book series …   Wikipedia

  • hiding — Ⅰ. hiding [1] ► NOUN 1) a physical beating. 2) informal a severe defeat. ● be on a hiding to nothing Cf. ↑be on a hiding to nothing ORIGIN from HIDE …   English terms dictionary

  • Hiding — Hid ing, n. The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment. [1913 Webster] There was the hiding of his power. Hab. iii. 4. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hiding — hiding1 [hīd′iŋ] n. [ME huydinge] 1. a) the act of one that hides b) the condition of being hidden: usually in the phrase in hiding 2. a place to hide hiding2 [hīd′iŋ] n …   English World dictionary

  • Hiding — Hid ing, n. A flogging. [Colloq.] Charles Reade. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hiding — index concealment, disguise, nonappearance Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • hiding — UK [ˈhaɪdɪŋ] / US noun Word forms hiding : singular hiding plural hidings 1) [uncountable] a situation in which someone hides, or changes their name or appearance, so that no one will recognize or find them The frightened family lived in hiding… …   English dictionary

  • hiding — [[t]ha͟ɪdɪŋ[/t]] hidings 1) N UNCOUNT: prep N If someone is in hiding, they have secretly gone somewhere where they cannot be seen or found. Gray is thought to be in hiding near the France/Italy border... Hundreds of people are said to have gone… …   English dictionary

  • hiding — n. 1) to go into hiding 2) to come out of hiding 3) in hiding * * * [ haɪdɪŋ] in hiding to come out of hiding to go into hiding …   Combinatory dictionary

  • hiding — noun VERB + HIDING ▪ go into ▪ He had gone into hiding just after war broke out. ▪ come out of ▪ After the car had passed by they came out of hiding. PREPOSITION …   Collocations dictionary

  • hiding — hid|ing [ˈhaıdıŋ] n 1.) [U] when someone stays somewhere in secret, especially because they have done something illegal or are in danger be in/go into/come out of hiding ▪ He went into hiding in 1973. 2.) [singular] spoken informal a) a severe… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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