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disguise English

Meaning disguise meaning

What does disguise mean?
Definitions in simple English

disguise Noun

— Disguise is a thing (e.g. clothing) used to hide one's identity or pretend to be another. That cape and mask completed his disguise.

disguise Verb

— To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity. Spies often disguise themselves. — To not reveal (something secret). He disguised his true intentions.

disguise

— noun an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories — verb (= mask) make unrecognizable The herb masks the garlic taste We disguised our faces before robbing the bank — noun the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance he is a master of disguise — noun any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity

Synonyms disguise synonyms

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disguise English » English

mask camouflage conceal hide cover masquerade veil pretend transform obscure impersonate dissemble transfigure secrete personate keep secret incarnate embody dress up deception costume concealment cloak shroud screen pretense pretence misrepresent masking imitation hush up hiding guise get-up feign fake distort dissimulation dissimulate cover up costumes wrap whiteout white out transformation submerge strew smother skin simulation

Topics disguise topics

What do people use disguise to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Hide your thoughts
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Chance

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Conjugation disguise conjugation

How do you conjugate disguise?

disguise · verb

Examples disguise examples

How do I use disguise in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Although Bob was in disguise, I recognized him at a glance.
He makes no disguise of his feelings.
There were many who couldn't recognize him in that disguise.
If you disguise yourself, they won't be able to tell.
Even though Bob was in disguise, I recognized him as soon as I saw him.
Tom removed his disguise.
The old woman had suspected from the very first that the boy who had come to the rescue of her son was a girl in disguise.
You can't disguise sad eyes.
Tom is a master of disguise.
Tom's divorce was a blessing in disguise.
The dirty boy turned out to be a prince in disguise.
You can't seriously expect that they won't recognize you in that disguise. That lopsided, dime store moustache is a dead giveaway!
Tom tried to disguise his voice.

Movie subtitles

But we're dealing with a guy who went to extraordinary lengths to disguise himself.
They are some friends in disguise for a job I'm planning.
We'll disguise you as a policeman and you can walk out and drive away.
Mrs. Hudson, suppose we look out and count the gentlemen in disguise. who are waiting for me?
This girl has been issued to me as part as my disguise. I resign.
I'll go myself to the dwarfs' cottage in a disguise so complete no one will ever suspect.
A perfect disguise.
You even thought that beggar in Damascus was a barrister in disguise.
Now there's only one thing left to do, you know - search the train in disguise.
Youre traveling in disguise.
You're a prince in disguise.
In that disguise, sir, it was, as you may say, kicked around Paris for over three score years by private owners too stupid to see what it was under the skin.
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
But I recognised him through his disguise, and I killed him.
He's got a disguise.
You don't have to disguise your voice.
Disguise the elemental with the glamorous.
I'm going to call her up long-distance and disguise my voice so she won't know who it is!
Whether he be dressed as priest, beggar, knight, palmer, what disguise can conceal the finest archer in England?
There's only one thing left to do. Search the train in disguise.
A disguise.
To disguise himself, of course.
You're traveling in disguise.
They haggled while I watch, an admirable disguise by the way.
You're You're traveling in disguise.
For you, Graham, so unlikely means of transportation is better than a disguise.
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage.
It's as if you were in a disguise.
Looks like a disguise.
The disguise.
And that female detective! She takes her disguise so seriously.
Uh, like a duke in disguise.
It is easy to disguise the face, sahib, but with me, the real difficulty is here.
You will resume your disguise as the cab driver at Lucknow railway station. and observe all Europeans coming from the north by train.
This is my first disguise.

News and current affairs

Turkey's seeming fall from grace with the US may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
But this dependence should not disguise the fact that there is a commonality of foreign policy interests between Europe and America.
These accounts should be frozen, despite the difficulty in doing so in a world rife with secret banking and nominee accounts that disguise true ownership.
Performance enhancing drugs disguise natural abilities and substitute for the dedication and focus that we admire.
Back then, financial-market participants had to devise fantastic schemes and contortions to disguise interest payments.
We must not use no-work jobs to disguise an army of unemployed.
Coordination of economic policies is, in reality, a disguise for increasing the powers of the Commission and of the Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Yet such projections could never entirely disguise a nagging anxiety.
For a while, booming or overheating real-estate markets and a thriving, but oversized banking sector can disguise a gradual loss of competitiveness and risks to fiscal sustainability, as occurred in the euro area.
It matches current fragmentary sounds in a sea of noise with a known song, or the face of a person in disguise with that of your child.
Was France's recent wave of protests against an amendment that would have increased employers' freedom to fire young workers a blessing in disguise?
Regular presidential elections in Mexico failed to disguise the fact that the same party ruled the country for over seven decades until earlier this year.
Foreign investors and EU politicians may not see through Medvedev's benign disguise - or may choose not to.
In East Asia, North Korea withdrew from the NPT after using it to disguise its weapons program, and China, America, Japan, Russia, and South Korea are trying to persuade Kim Jong Il's regime to reverse course.
One day, it will no longer be possible to disguise unemployment through shorter working weeks, forced leaves of absence, and decreases in wages.
After Ixtoc, the blow to the Mexican fisheries became a blessing in disguise.
Therein may lie a blessing in disguise, but the curses are more obvious.
Hence, the WTO ruling, at least in this case, may be a blessing in disguise.

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