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disguise
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. • • • 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)
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