Definition of masked
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Examples of masked in a Sentence
The bank was held up by masked robbers.
Recent Examples of masked from the Web
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Another witness said a masked man entered El Pastor restaurant and slashed a woman in the side with a knife.
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A masked man armed with a gun came into the brothers’ home on Hays Drive just before 9 p.m. Oct. 31 and shot DeLoatch and Smith to death.
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Videos of a masked man wearing a dark hoodie hitting a pro-Trump protester in the head circulated widely on social media and led to Clanton’s arrest, Berkeley Police Lt.
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CAIRO -- Masked militants riding in three SUVs opened fire Friday on a bus packed with Coptic Christians, including children, south of the Egyptian capital, killing at least 28 people and wounding 22, the Interior Ministry said.
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Egyptian officials say dozens of people were killed and wounded in an attack by masked militants on a bus carrying Coptic Christians, including children, south of Cairo.
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In 2004, Boom learns, 400 Roma men, women and children were rounded up by masked gunmen in the middle of the night, trucked to a large cave and then, according to a lone survivor, buried alive.
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IS the next big thing in superheroes a masked man who leaps from skyscraper to skyscraper, saves the world and suddenly breaks into song?
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First Known Use of masked
1599
MASKED Defined for English Language Learners
masked
playDefinition of masked for English Language Learners
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: wearing a mask
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: done by or involving people who wear masks
Medical Dictionary
masked
Medical Definition of masked
: failing to present or produce the usual symptoms : not obvious : latent masked depression a masked virus
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