hide

A1
US /haɪd/
noun verb Freq #903

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    the dressed skin of an animal, especially a large animal

    The mountain house had the hide of a bear on the floor.

  2. 2
    verb

    make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

    I hide an extra house key under a rock in front of my house.

  3. 3
    verb

    prevent from being seen or discovered

    Muslim women hide their faces

  4. 4
    verb

    To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.

    He hides his magazines under the bed.

  5. 5
    verb

    To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.

    Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

  6. 6
    noun

    The human skin.

    O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!

  7. 7
    noun

    One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.

    to save his own hide

  8. 8
    noun

    (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.

    A Forest Trail and wild life hides lie 2 miles to the north-east. Blue hares, deer, wild geese, herons and duck can be discreetly observed from the hides.

Etymology

From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną (“to hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). The verb was originally weak. In the King James Version of the Bible (1611), both hid and hidden are used for the past participle. Cognates Cognate with Dutch huiden, Low German (ver)hüden, (ver)hüen (“to hide, cover, conceal”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin custōs, Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to…

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · the dressed skin of an... fell
2 verb · make undecipherable or... blot outobliterateobscureveil
3 verb · prevent from being seen or... conceal
4 verb · to put (something) in a... buryconcealdisguisehide awayoccultsecreteveil
5 verb · to put oneself in a place... go undercoverhide awayhide outhole uplie low
Word family
Derived forms autohideboarhidecalfhidecowhidedragonhidegreen-hidegreenhidehidagehiddlehide-a-bedhide-allhide-and-go-seek

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