Definition of camouflage
1 : the disguising especially of military equipment or installations with paint, nets, or foliage; also : the disguise so applied
2a : concealment by means of disguise The rabbit's white fur acts as camouflage in the snow.b : behavior or artifice designed to deceive or hide hiding behind a camouflage of righteous indignation
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Examples of camouflage in a Sentence
The army tanks were painted green and brown for camouflage.
The rabbit's white fur acts as a camouflage in the snow.
Rabbits use their white fur as camouflage in the snow.
Her so-called charity work was a camouflage for her own self-interest.
His tough attitude served as camouflage.
Recent Examples of camouflage from the Web
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In his sporting camouflage—tweed jacket, britches, and tattersall shirt and tie—
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Another image showed him apparently handcuffed in a room while police in camouflage uniforms stood guard with assault rifles.
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Previously, the vehicle had only been seen, rarely, in black camouflage.
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And in some species at least, the animals have an astonishing capacity for camouflage, instantly changing color, texture, and posture so as to blend in with lumps of coral on a reef or the blankness of the sand.
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She was swathed in a few layers of long underwear and camouflage.
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Camouflage prints on sporty moto jackets, puffer vests and sweaters.
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A large man in a camouflage jacket and a black-and-blue scarf stepped from his jeep and introduced himself as Ayub Hawleri.
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The police released a photograph of a person in a camouflage T-shirt and with a gun slung around his body, calling him a suspect.
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Origin and Etymology of camouflage
French, from camoufler to disguise
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Definition of camouflage
camouflaged
;camouflaging
transitive verb
: to conceal or disguise by camouflage The makeup camouflages blemishes.
intransitive verb
: to practice camouflage
Examples of camouflage in a Sentence
It was impossible to camouflage the facts.
camouflaged the military camp as a native village
Recent Examples of camouflage from the Web
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Cardinals are probably best camouflaged in a sunstruck red maple at the height of autumn.
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The Germans, camouflaged inside a chateau on its heights, had installed a powerful telescope.
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Perhaps more crucially, though, Mohutsiwa points to a pattern of online radicalization where in-group members are insulated from dissenting information and encouraged to camouflage their allegiances:
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His brand is in full effect: the silver hair, the gravelly voice, the arrogant strut camouflaging a core of basic decency.
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Afterward, German soldiers blew up the entranceway and camouflaged it with soil and vegetation.
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While the Haven is hidden, or at least camouflaged, on Norwegian’s cruise ships, its archrival Royal Caribbean, by contrast, makes no secret of what is available to passengers who pay the most.
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Anat Ronen created the first mini mural at the intersection of Willowbend and West Bellfort Thursday, camouflaging an 8-by-4-foot utility box with a morning glory vine design.
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But camouflaging the cost of space travel is no way to treat its value, or to treat Americans’
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Origin and Etymology of camouflage
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Definition of camouflage
: made in colors or patterns typical of camouflage a camouflage jacket
Origin and Etymology of camouflage
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CAMOUFLAGE Defined for English Language Learners
camouflage
playDefinition of camouflage for English Language Learners
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: a way of hiding something (such as military equipment) by painting it or covering it with leaves or branches to make it harder to see
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: the green and brown clothing that soldiers and hunters wear to make them harder to see
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: something (such as color or shape) that protects an animal from attack by making the animal difficult to see in the area around it
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Definition of camouflage for English Language Learners
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: to hide (something) by covering it up or making it harder to see
CAMOUFLAGE Defined for Kids
Definition of camouflage for Students
1 : the hiding or disguising of something by covering it up or changing the way it looks The leopard has spots for camouflage.
2 : something (as color or shape) that protects an animal from attack by making it difficult to see in the area around it
Definition of camouflage for Students
camouflaged
;camouflaging
: to hide or disguise by covering or making harder to see
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