hide
/haɪd/ verb A1- To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover. · He hides his magazines under the bed.· The father hid the gift behind him.
- To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find. · You can run, but you can't hide!· The thieves were found hiding in an abandoned building.
He/she/it hides · Past hid · Past participle hidden · -ing form hiding
Verb forms
- Base form
- hide
- He/she/it
- hides
- Past
- hid
- Past participle
- hidden
- -ing form
- hiding
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen.
He slipped into this room because it was the first he came to, and he hid behind the curtain.
“Now the mischief is out; depend upon it the custom-house people went rummaging about the ship in our absence, and discovered poor Dantès’ hidden treasures.”
One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: “If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.”
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