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/haɪd/ · verb
(transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover..
He hides his magazines under the bed.
The father hid the gift behind him.
The politicians were accused of keeping information hidden from the public.
1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the "Hirondelle" to avoid meeting him.
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
Baby, I know places we won't be found, and They'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down 'Cause I, I know places we can hide I know places
O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!
Use hide when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hide means (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover..
Common synonyms include conceal, occult, hide away, secrete.
Possible antonyms include disclose, expose, reveal, show.
He hides his magazines under the bed.
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