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单词 hide
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hide1

/hʌɪd /
verb (past hid; past participle hidden /ˈhɪd(ə)n/) [with object]
1Put or keep out of sight: he hid the money in the house they swept up the pieces and hid them away...
  • He had saved around £2,000 which had been hidden away in a holdall behind a table in his bungalow.
  • On Saturday we continued with the sorting out and tackled three boxes of assorted stuff that have been carefully hidden away in the cupboards in the spare room since we moved in over eighteen months ago.
  • The silver gilt trophy had been hidden away in a bank vault in a secret location.

Synonyms

conceal, secrete, put in a hiding place, put out of sight, camouflage;
lock up, bury, store away, stow away, cache
informal stash
1.1Prevent (someone or something) from being seen: clouds rolled up and hid the moon...
  • The moon was hidden behind a cloud and she couldn't see anything, but her ears could hear a suspicious tiptoeing around the front door.
  • The night is filled with bright, sparkling stars as far as the eye can see, without cloud or smog to hide them.
  • The moon was hidden behind thick black clouds and she had to grope her way around the unfamiliar surroundings.

Synonyms

obscure, block out, blot out, obstruct, cloud, shroud, veil, blanket, envelop, darken, eclipse
literary enshroud
1.2Prevent (an emotion or fact) from being apparent or known; keep secret: Herbert could hardly hide his dislike...
  • The facts had to be hidden from his wife, Danielle.
  • I agreed to act as though our affair were a secret, a clandestine drama to be hidden from the rest of the world.
  • Like Cherise, who missed her father and made no secret about it, Lindiwe was open emotionally, never hiding the fact that she missed her husband and child.

Synonyms

keep secret, keep unknown, conceal, cover up, keep dark, keep quiet about, hush up, bottle up, suppress, repress, withhold;
disguise, mask, camouflage, veil, dissemble
informal keep mum about, keep under one's hat, keep a/the lid on
1.3 [no object] Conceal oneself: Juliet’s first instinct was to hide under the blankets he used to hide out in a cave...
  • One guy actually hid under a blanket in the morning because he didn't want to be recognized.
  • Two wooden chairs, metal drip trays, glass ashtrays and glasses were thrown at another member of staff who hid for cover behind the bar, and also at the kitchen door.
  • Jake said he was too scared to yell out so he just stayed in bed and hid under the covers.

Synonyms

conceal oneself, secrete oneself, hide out, take cover, keep hidden, find a hiding place, keep out of sight;
go into hiding, lie low, go to ground, go to earth, go underground, lurk
informal hole up
British informal lie doggo
1.4 [no object] (hide behind) Use (someone or something) to protect oneself from criticism or punishment, especially in a way considered cowardly: companies with poor security can hide behind the law...
  • Does he have the fortitude to actually NAME the country he would like to slur, or is he the sort of intellectual coward who hides behind a snide comment rather than a reasoned argument?
  • It's a step in the right direction that they can't hide behind international law.
  • Even to the pillars of our society, the days of hiding behind civil law, martial law and canon law are gone.
noun British
A camouflaged shelter used to observe wildlife at close quarters.We expect the camera crew to sit patiently in a camouflaged hide, waiting for the wildlife to wander by....
  • The property sleeps nine and has ready access to woodland walks and a five-acre wildlife reserve with bird hides and a trout lake.
  • If you were building a hide from which to observe them in their natural habitat, you would probably situate it somewhere in the north-west between Liverpool and Wigan.

Phrases

hide one's head

hide one's light under a bushel

Derivatives

hider

/ˈhʌɪdə / noun ...
  • In addition to these expert hiders, we'll look at some animals who don't hide at all, but throw predators off by disguising themselves as something dangerous or uninteresting.
  • To prepare, they repeated the challenges of darkness and plain sight several times, with different people being the targets, hiders, searchers, and the like.
  • A Sneaker is someone who cheats in Hide & Seek by either watching the hiders run away or moving from hiding place to hiding place while, well, hiding.

Origin

Old English hȳdan, of West Germanic origin.

  • The hide meaning ‘the skin of an animal’ goes back far in prehistory to a root that also developed into Latin cutis ‘skin’ (the source of cuticle (Late Middle English)). A person who is hidebound (mid 16th century) is unable or unwilling to change because of tradition or convention. The word originally referred to physical condition, first of cattle who were so badly fed or so sick that their skin clung close to their back and ribs, and then of emaciated people. The hide meaning ‘to put or keep out of sight’ is also Old English but unrelated. See also bushel. Someone who is on a hiding to nothing is unlikely to succeed, or at least unlikely to gain much advantage if they do. The term apparently arose in the world of horse racing, when a trainer, owner, or jockey was expected to win easily and so could gain no credit from success but would be disgraced by failure. The word is the same as that in a good hiding, and means ‘a beating’—the idea is one of beating the hide or skin off someone. See also hundred

Rhymes

hide2

/hʌɪd /
noun
1The skin of an animal, especially when tanned or dressed: we’ll skin them right here and preserve their hides [mass noun]: his feet were protected with strips of hide...
  • The production of leather from animal hides was a time-consuming and dreadfully smelly process.
  • During the winter, additional warmth was provided by bear skins and buffalo hides.
  • In return for animal hides, the merchants of Southampton obtained gold, silver, glass ware, and wine.

Synonyms

skin, pelt, coat, fur, fleece;
leather
archaic fell
1.1Used to refer to a person’s ability to withstand criticisms or insults: she had never managed to develop a hide quite tough enough for his barbs to bounce off...
  • A player might start out not looking very tough, but he develops a thick hide and becomes a tough guy at the height of his abilities.
  • Develop a thick hide and have patience - and keep writing, whether you get recognized or not.
  • Fortunately, my hide was thick enough that I didn't let it get to me.

Phrases

hide or hair of

save one's hide

tan (or whip) someone's hide

Derivatives

hided

adjective
[in combination]: thick-hided

Origin

Old English hȳd, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch huid and German Haut.

hide3

/hʌɪd /
noun
A former measure of land used in England, typically equal to between 60 and 120 acres, being the amount that would support a family and its dependants.In much of England the hide was reckoned as of 120 acres, in Wessex generally as of 40 or 48....
  • This is one of the larger farms on the estate, with 51/2 hides of land.
  • The ‘geld’, as it came to be called, was based on the ancient method of assessing land in hides, and was raised at a fixed rate of so much per hide.

Origin

Old English hīd, hīgid, from the base of hīgan, hīwan 'household members', of Germanic origin.

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