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单词 in secret
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in secret

phrase
If you do something in secret, you do it without anyone else knowing.
Dan found out that I had been meeting my ex-boyfriend in secret.
Synonyms: secretly, surreptitiously, slyly, behind closed doors More Synonyms of in secret
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in secret in American English

without the knowledge of others; secretly
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Examples of 'in secret' in a sentence
in secret

The excitement of doing it in secret can make it all surprisingly romantic.
The Sun (2016)
It took him eight weeks to make a rope in secret.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The judge who heard the arguments from social services sat in secret.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The prisoners were hanged in secret without independent witnesses and after years in solitary confinement.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The pair have been in secret meetings over the past few weeks.
The Sun (2007)
 Meeting in secret is compromising our own happiness.
The Sun (2014)
 Meeting in secret was exciting.
The Sun (2014)
And I got to make it in secret.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It meant he could no longer make up his mind in secret, without the world knowing the evidence on which his final judgement was based.
Hebblethwaite, Peter Paul VI - The First Modern Pope (1993)
Or when it conducts its meetings in secret and failed to uncover the very documents that led the Court of Appeal to criticise the security services?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)

Chinese translation of 'in secret'

in secret

  1. 暗地里(裡) (àndì li)
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Nearby words of
in secret

  • in sb's/sth's place
  • in search of
  • in secrecy
  • in secret
  • in self-defence
  • in sequence
  • in settlement of our account

Related terms of
in secret

  • to let sb in on a secret
(phrase) 
Definition
without the knowledge of others
Dan found out that we'd been meeting in secret to plan his surprise birthday party.
Synonyms
secretly
secretly organized events
surreptitiously
slyly
behind closed doors
incognito
by stealth
in camera
huggermugger (archaic)
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Nearby words of
in secret

  • in ruins
  • in search of
  • in season
  • in secret
  • in service
  • in seventh heaven
  • in short

Synonyms of 'in secret'

in secret

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