## Meanings
1. Clothes, makeup, or other things used to change your appearance and hide who you are.
2. To change someone's or something's appearance in order to hide it.
3. To hide something such as a feeling or fact.

## Examples
- The spy wore a wig and glasses as a disguise.
- She disguised herself as a waiter to get into the party.
- He couldn't disguise his anger at the news.

## Synonyms
- camouflage
- cloak
- garb
- guise
- hide
- mask
- pretense

## Derived Forms
- disguisable
- disguisedly
- disguiseless
- disguisement
- disguiser
- redisguise
- undisguise

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: disgisen
- Root: desguiser
- Root: dis-

## Etymology
From Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).

## AI Etymology
disguise comes from Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source). The historical chain includes Middle English disgisen, Old French desguiser, Latin dis-. Current senses include Clothes, makeup, or other things used to change your appearance and hide who you are and to change someone's or something's appearance in order to hide it. English relatives and later formations include disguisable, disguisedly, disguiseless.

## Topics
- Clothing & Appearance

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