conceal

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conceal

verb camouflage, cloak, confine, cover, cover up, curtain, disguise, eclipse, enshroud, entomb, envelop, harbor, hide, keep clandestine, keep from, keep out of sight, keep secret, keep to oneself, keep underground, make innonspicuous, make indiscernible, make unapparent, make unperceptible, mask, not reveal, obscure, occulere, protect, render invisible, screen, seclude, secrete, shade, shadow, shield, shroud, store, suppress, throw a veil over, veil, withhraw from observation, withold, withold information
Associated concepts: conceal assets, conceal information, conceal material facts
Foreign phrases: Fraus est celare fraudem.It is fraud to conneal a fraud.
See also: blind, camouflage, circumvent, cloak, clothe, disguise, distort, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, expurgate, guard, harbor, hedge, hide, misguide, misinform, obfuscate, obliterate, obnubilate, obscure, screen, seclude, sequester, shroud, stifle, suppress, withhold
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There remained in her the belief that some calamity had befallen her husband, of which she was to be kept in ignorance; and it was in her nature strongly to object to such concealment.
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I have had concealments from you, put deceptions on you, God forgive me
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I only mean that it distresses me to have any concealments from you.
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And yet I ought to have no concealments in such a matter from you.
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If the government would frankly state its intentions without concealments of any kind, the liberals would know what they had to deal with.
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To this end Lady Janet had submitted to Grace Roseberry; had offended Horace Holmcroft; had stooped, for the first time in her life, to concealments and compromises that degraded her.
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