| 单词 | concealment |
| 释义 | concealment (once / 951 pages) n Use the noun concealment when you talk about the act of hiding something. The concealment of your terrible haircut is easy — just wear a hat. Concealment is the process of disguising something or the condition of keeping something private. Secret agents need to focus on concealment all the time, of their identities and sometimes their hair color, citizenship, and activities. A hunter's concealment is important in a different way — she might wear camouflage and stay low and quiet to avoid being seen by the ducks she's hunting. The Old French root word is conceler, "to hide." WORD FAMILYconcealment: concealments+/conceal: concealed, concealing, concealment, conceals/concealed: concealedly, unconcealed/concealing: concealingly, concealings/unconcealed: unconcealedly USAGE EXAMPLESSprinkle was charged by Charlotte Mecklenburg Police with shoplifting by concealment Tuesday at the Belk department store and was released. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) Plausible deniability is the ability of a person in charge to avoid blowback through concealment of connection. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) They also charged a 48 year-old woman with hindering prosecution and concealment of a human corpse. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1n the condition of being concealed or hidden Syn|Hypo|Hyper privacy, privateness, secrecy covertness, hiddenness the state of being covert and hidden bosomthe chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept confidentialitythe state of being secret hidingthe state of being hidden isolation a state of separation between persons or groups 2n a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background Syn|Hypo|Hyper cover, covert, screen blind a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) camouflagedevice or stratagem for concealment or deceit shojia translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper stalking-horsescreen consisting of a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game covering an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) 3n the activity of keeping something secret Syn|Hypo|Hyper concealing, hiding camouflage, disguise the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance maskactivity that tries to conceal something cover, covering, masking, screeningthe act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it covera false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent) cover-upconcealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public burial, buryingconcealing something under the ground smoke screen, smokescreenan action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure stealing, stealthavoiding detection by moving carefully money launderingconcealing the source of illegally gotten money blue wall, blue wall of silence, wall of silencethe secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers reburial, reburyingthe act of burying again activity any specific behavior |
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