Conceal

Quick meaning: Conceal is a verb meaning (transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

Meaning

(transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

Example Sentences

He tried to conceal the truth about his health.

Utah has allowed for permitless open and concealed carry of weapons since 2021. But before the passage of HB 128, firearms had to be concealed when carried on college campuses.

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

Word Forms

• conceals
• concealing
• concealed

Synonyms for conceal

Depending on context, synonyms include cover up, hide, obfuscate, secrete.

Antonyms for conceal

Common opposites include reveal, uncover, admit, show.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hide, dissemble, disguise, subdue, withhold, hidden.

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