hide
A1Meanings
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noun
the dressed skin of an animal, especially a large animal
The mountain house had the hide of a bear on the floor.
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verb
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
I hide an extra house key under a rock in front of my house.
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verb
prevent from being seen or discovered
Muslim women hide their faces
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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.
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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.
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noun
The human skin.
O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!
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noun
One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
to save his own hide
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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…