Concealing
[kən'si:lɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) covering or hiding; 'the concealing darkness'; 'concealing curtains prevented discovery' .
Checker: Rene--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conceal
Editor: Whitney
Examples
- And this is the way men deal with women--still concealing danger from them--thinking, I suppose, to spare them pain. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I don't see that, said Clym, carefully concealing every clue to his own interrupted intention, which she plainly had not guessed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Not yet, cried the other, concealing her terror, and assisting Marianne to lie down again, but she will be here, I hope, before it is long. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Concealing it from us! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Close pent-up guilt, Raise your concealing continents, and ask These dreadful summoners grace! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I suppose you had your reasons, Mr. Hartright, for concealing that suspicion from me till this moment? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Nor was I quite satisfied in my own mind of the propriety of our concealing the doctor's absence as we did from Lady Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We are all scoundrels more or less, only some are cleverer at concealing it than other people, he said carelessly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I charged them with being disguised, and you saw how it told on them, clever as the Hindoo people are in concealing their feelings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And I have suffered the consequences of concealing it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My plea of concealing the truth she did not think sufficient. Jane Austen. Emma.
- What was it that my wife was concealing from me? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And I hope you will not be cruelly concealing any tendency to indisposition. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But this is no excuse for their concealing it from us. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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