Tra từ disguise - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
thinly
▪ This was a thinly disguised device designed to give Harleston the opportunity to ease Jeffries out painlessly and to find a replacement.
▪ Hardly compatible with discretion, that I should ride to the Palace in so thinly disguised a vehicle.
▪ Mostly they turned out to be thinly disguised candidate ads, a violation of the spirit of the law at best.
▪ Both, however, were under external threat from barbarians more or less thinly disguised.
▪ No question, a lot of corporate take-overs are shams, thinly disguised.
NOUN
attempt
▪ The effect Jennifer had on him was so obvious that Ann was amazed he made no attempt to disguise it.
▪ He made no attempt to disguise his limp.
▪ Johnson makes no attempt to disguise the fact.
▪ Does Sanchez worry about attempts at disguised retaliation?
▪ He made no attempt to disguise it and sold the car to a firm of car dealers.
fact
▪ That impersonality is the essence of war and the Thiepval Memorial attempts to disguise that fact by pretending to commemorate persons.
▪ But this justifiable pleasure does not disguise the fact that much was left undone.
▪ Obviously the maid was disguised in view of the fact that we were known to be looking for two women travelling together.
▪ Clare moved on purposefully, as if it was necessary to disguise the fact that she had no money.
▪ But none of this could disguise the fact that the great nobles had substantial bodies of experienced soldiers at their disposal.
▪ Johnson makes no attempt to disguise the fact.
▪ The essential purpose was to disguise the fact that Dennis was an alcoholic.
▪ Using so many spices helped to disguise the fact that the food was often far from fresh.
VERB
try
▪ She didn't try to disguise the gap it left behind by drawing the other suits together.
▪ Kim said, trying his best to disguise his shock and fear at such a proposal.
▪ Indeed he had not tried to disguise in his Middle East diaries what he knew would happen to the soldiers.
▪ It was the kind of station, and nobody tried to disguise it, where self-respecting disc jockeys were never found.
▪ I thought it was you; you were trying to disguise your voice.
▪ She too had tried to disguise herself in kurta pajama, had pulled her hair back as I had done.
▪ He stood accused of trying to disguise a crude revenue-raising measure.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blessing in disguise
▪ The loss of fertilizer proved to be a blessing in disguise. It forced us to use compost, which is better for the soil and crops.
▪ Again, one may be forced to the conclusion that his departure was a blessing in disguise for him.
▪ Be positive, this could be a blessing in disguise, use the time gained wisely.
▪ But in a way that time lag, though it could be frustrating, was also a blessing in disguise.
▪ Poor Jonas' death was a blessing in disguise, though one could wish it had happened differently.
▪ The crash was a blessing in disguise for Schwab.
▪ The great cattle freeze of the white winter had been, in retrospect, a blessing in disguise.
▪ The Labour defeat was a disaster, but it might be a blessing in disguise.
▪ Well, maybe this is a blessing in disguise.
thinly disguised/veiled
▪ Almost all his climbs have a certain something: a thinly disguised air of intimidation often allied to a raw brutality.
▪ Both, however, were under external threat from barbarians more or less thinly disguised.
▪ Dole passed up two thinly veiled invitations by moderator Jim Lehrer to address so-called character issues.
▪ Hardly compatible with discretion, that I should ride to the Palace in so thinly disguised a vehicle.
▪ I should hate to give the impression that my love for you is but thinly disguised lust.
▪ Mostly they turned out to be thinly disguised candidate ads, a violation of the spirit of the law at best.
▪ Mrs Thatcher's public speeches contained thinly veiled warning messages to colleagues who doubted the strategy.
▪ She was only thinly veiled, and Rostov could see that although she was beautiful, she was old.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He spent several years in the monastery disguised as a monk.
▪ Larry couldn't disguise his satisfaction at seeing his competitor go out of business.
▪ She managed to get into the camp by disguising herself as a soldier.
▪ The FBI say the hijackers were very likely to have been disguised.
▪ The men had disguised the vessel as fishing boat to escape.
▪ The park's waterfalls disguise the traffic noise from the freeway.
▪ The robber was wearing a paper bag over his head to disguise his face.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And then the genie told him about the magician disguised as the holy woman.
▪ But what is striking now is that neither side seems bothered about disguising those differences.
▪ Dexter admired the way in which his boss disguised who she was really interested in.
▪ Do not disguise your intentions in order to achieve your own ends as doing this only feeds the negativity within you.
▪ Myriad receptions and reunions could not disguise the bleak prospects for job hunters.
▪ No amount of expensive television advertising can disguise that.
▪ Their Walkpersons are in actuality radar sensors cleverly disguised, I theorize.
▪ With horrible political insight they found a way to disguise the thing.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Friends gave us long robes and veils for disguise.
▪ The army does not officially admit that it uses disguises.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was a good disguise, he told himself.
▪ He went across in a variety of disguises, or sent emissaries, and negotiated the price.
▪ Inevitably though, these disguises inspired in readers a sense of vicarious danger or disgust.
▪ Luther was the devil in disguise.
▪ Morning comes, and Blue starts busying himself with another disguise.
▪ The crash was a blessing in disguise for Schwab.
▪ The major problem is that it is just another irresponsible tax cut in disguise that would mostly benefit rich folks like Forbes.
▪ The peddler in disguise showed Snow White her beautiful, colorful laces.

disguise

I. dis‧guise¹ /dɪsˈɡaɪz/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : desguiser, from guise 'appearance']
1. to change someone’s appearance so that people cannot recognize them
disguise yourself as somebody/something
　 ▪ Maybe you could disguise yourself as a waiter and sneak in there.
　 ▪ He escaped across the border disguised as a priest.

2. to change the appearance, sound, taste etc of something so that people do not recognize it:
　 ▪ There’s no way you can disguise that southern accent.
disguise something as something
　 ▪ a letter bomb disguised as a musical greetings card

3. to hide a fact or feeling so that people will not notice it:
　 ▪ Try as he might, Dan couldn’t disguise his feelings for Katie.
disguise the fact (that)
　 ▪ There’s no disguising the fact that business is bad.
　 ▪ The speech was seen by many as a thinly disguised attack on the president.
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THESAURUS
▪hide to make something difficult to see or find, or to not show your true feelings :
　 ▪ He hid the gun in his pocket.
　 ▪ She tried to hide her anger.
　 ▪ The actress put up a hand to hide her face from the cameras.
▪conceal formal to hide something, especially by carefully putting it somewhere. Also used when talking about hiding your feelings, especially in negative sentences :
　 ▪ Several kilos of drugs were concealed in the back of the truck.
　 ▪ He could not conceal his feelings any longer.
　 ▪ The girl quickly concealed the photograph she had been gazing at.
▪cover up to put something over another thing that you do not want people to see, in order to hide it completely :
　 ▪ People cover up cracks with wallpaper or tiles.
　 ▪ I used some make-up to cover up the spots.
　 ▪ She was wearing a thin shawl to cover up the bruises on her arm.
▪disguise to make someone or something seem like a different person or thing, so that other people cannot recognize them :
　 ▪ She managed to get into the camp by disguising herself as a soldier.
　 ▪ The men had disguised the vessel as fishing boat.
▪camouflage to hide something by covering it with materials that make it look like the things around it :
　 ▪ We camouflaged the plane by covering it with leaves.
　 ▪ The troops used charcoal to camouflage their faces.
　 ▪ Soldiers had camouflaged the trucks with branches and dirt.
▪obscure literary to make it difficult to see something clearly :
　 ▪ The view was obscured by mist.
　 ▪ His body was found, partially obscured by bushes, at the bottom of a shallow canyon.
▪mask to make something less noticeable, for example a taste, a smell, a sound, or a feeling :
　 ▪ The lemon helps to mask the taste of the fish.
　 ▪ Helen had turned on the radio to mask the noise of the traffic.
　 ▪ He did little to mask his contempt.

II. disguise² noun
1. [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
something that you wear to change your appearance and hide who you are, or the act of wearing this:
　 ▪ His disguise didn’t fool anyone.
　 ▪ She wore dark glasses in an absurd attempt at disguise.

2. in disguise

a) wearing a disguise:
　 ▪ The woman in the park turned out to be a police officer in disguise.
b) made to seem like something else that is better:
　 ▪ ‘Tax reform’ is just a tax increase in disguise.
⇨ blessing in disguise at blessing(4)