conceal
/kənˈsil/ verb B2- To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret. · He tried to conceal the truth about his health.
He/she/it conceals · Past concealed · Past participle concealed · -ing form concealing
Verb forms
- Base form
- conceal
- He/she/it
- conceals
- Past
- concealed
- Past participle
- concealed
- -ing form
- concealing
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“Meaning to say,” replied Dantès, with a smile which but ill-concealed his trouble, “that if I were not a captain——”
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.”
Policar Morrel, who served under the other government, and who does not altogether conceal what he thinks on the subject, you are strongly suspected of regretting the abdication of Napoleon.
I am too well aware that though a subordinate, like myself, is bound to acquaint the shipowner with everything that occurs, there are many things he ought most carefully to conceal from all else.”
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