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单词 hiding
释义 hiding
I. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English hidinge, from hiden to hide + -inge -ing
1. : the act or action of hiding; especially : a withdrawal from one's usual haunts to evade authority or secure privacy
 < having got into difficulties with the government for his press reports and cartoons, he went into hidingIrish Digest >
2. : a place or means of concealment
 < take me to that hiding in the hills — Alfred Tennyson >
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: from gerund of hide (V)
: an infliction of physical punishment : beating
 < a fighter … who had been taking hidings in the gymnasium — Sporting Life >
 < the roof of a van really takes a hiding in all weathers — Keith Winser >
especially : whipping
 < put her over my knee and gave her a hiding — Saul Bellow >
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