conceal

English

Etymology

From Middle English concelen, from Old French conceler (“hide, disguise”), from Latin concelāre, infinitive of concelō (“carefully disguise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsiːl/

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• Rhymes: -iːl
• Hyphenation: con‧ceal

Verb

conceal (third-person singular simple present conceals, present participle concealing, simple past and past participle concealed)

1. (transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

   He tried to conceal the truth about his health.

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     Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

Synonyms

• hide
• obfuscate
• secrete

Antonyms

• reveal
• uncover
• admit

Related terms

• concealing, concealed

Translations

to hide something

• Arabic: أَخْفَى (ʔaḵfā)

  Moroccan Arabic: خبا (ḵabba), درق (darraq)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: danmaq
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: крия (bg) (krija), скривам (bg) (skrivam)
• Catalan: amagar (ca), ocultar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隱瞞／隐瞒 (zh) (yǐnmán), 隐瞒 (zh) (yǐnmán), 隱藏／隐藏 (zh) (yǐncáng), 隐藏 (zh) (yǐncáng), 藏 (zh) (cáng), 掩蓋／掩盖 (zh) (yǎngài), 掩盖 (zh) (yǎngài)

• Czech: skrýt (cs) pf, skrývat (cs) impf, ukrýt (cs) pf, ukrývat impf, schovat (cs) pf, schovávat (cs) impf, zakrýt (cs) pf, zakrývat (cs) impf
• Danish: skjule (da)
• Dutch: verbergen (nl), verstoppen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: varjama, peitma
• Finnish: kätkeä (fi), salata (fi), peittää (fi)
• French: dissimuler (fr), cacher (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: verbergen (de), verheimlichen (de), verschleiern (de), verschweigen (de)
• Greek: αποκρύπτω (el) (apokrýpto)

  Ancient: κρύπτω (krúptō)

• Hindi: छिपाना (hi) (chipānā)
• Hungarian: titkol (hu), eltitkol (hu), elrejt (hu)
• Icelandic: fela (is), hylja (is)
• Ido: celar (io)
• Indonesian: menyembunyikan (id)
• Irish: ceil
• Italian: nascondere (it), celare (it)
• Japanese: 隠す (ja) (かくす, kakusu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: 숨기다 (ko) (sumgida), 감추다 (ko) (gamchuda)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: cēlō, occulō
• Latvian: slēpt (lv)
• Maori: whakangaro
• Mongolian: нуух (mn) (nuux)
• Norwegian: gjemme (no), skjule (no), fortie, gøyme, dekke over
• Old English: mīþan
• Persian: پنهان کردن (fa) (panhân kardan)
• Polish: ukrywać (pl), chować (pl)
• Portuguese: esconder (pt), omitir (pt)
• Romanian: ascunde (ro)
• Russian: скрыва́ть (ru) impf (skryvátʹ), скры́ть (ru) pf (skrýtʹ), пря́тать (ru) impf (prjátatʹ), спря́тать (ru) pf (sprjátatʹ)
• Spanish: esconder (es), ocultar (es)
• Swahili: kuficha
• Swedish: dölja (sv)
• Tagalog: itago
• Thai: ปิดบัง (th) (bpìt bang), ปกปิด (th) (bpòk bpìt)
• Tok Pisin: karamapim
• Turkish: gizlemek (tr)
• Urdu: چھپانا (chipānā)
• Vietnamese: giấu (vi)
• Walloon: muchî (wa), muchyî (wa)
• Welsh: celu (cy)
• West Frisian: ferbergje
• ǃXóõ: !n̥áʻa