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
From the library
That’s all I know about it--and I haven’t got any more orphans concealed hereabouts.”
“You’d better muse over your lessons and sums,” said Marilla, concealing her delight at this development of the situation.
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.
“But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavor to conceal it, he must find it out.”
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