Definition of camouflagenext
as in costume
clothing put on to hide one's true identity or imitate someone or something else the soldiers must wear protective jungle camouflage while on patrol

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camouflage

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Recent Examples of camouflage
Noun
Today’s event featured free merch that included Carhartt shirts, yellow hoodies, and camouflage hats featuring mottos such as Keep the future human and Pro-Human. — Toluse Olorunnipa, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026 Motorcycle manufacturers usually hide pre-launch test bikes under heavy camouflage rather than showcasing them on a high-profile global stage. — New Atlas, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
Then, in April, a whale was found dead and beached in Oregon, the arc of its carcass camouflaged against the surf. — Ainslie Cruickshank, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026 Iron gates wrought into patterns open into a small courtyard filled with metal ephemera, which leads to a door camouflaged by a mural of a bull and a jester. — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for camouflage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for camouflage
Noun
  • The finale features Miss Asian Hall of Fame Ambassadors and showcases heritage costumes from around the world.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Before the girls perform for Eloise, Paulina creeps into the cafeteria alone, carefully made up and dressed in baby blue chiffon (costume designer Qween Jean continues to shoot nothing but net).
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • What has changed over Fashion Month is the frequency — and how little effort anyone seems interested in making to disguise the underwear as anything else.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Hüller was to play a woman disguising herself as a male soldier in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War, ingratiating herself in a small Protestant village.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Face masks were distributed to local kindergartens, and mandatory mask mandates were slapped on workers at the nearby Irkutsk Aluminum Plant.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
  • An aluminum plant near the laboratory instructed staff to wear masks as a precautionary measure.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Frankel also faces investment adviser fraud and false-statement counts over SEC filings that allegedly concealed his conviction and a Finra suspension.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Baldwin had alleged that prosecutors intentionally concealed evidence that would vindicate him and sought to charge him for political gain.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • But unlike Backrooms, SCP Foundation has always been more centralized to this one website, and every subsequent SCP Foundation work has always fallen under the guise of the Creative Commons license, something the Backrooms creepypasta never did.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2026
  • As critics such as Antonio Candido have remarked, regionalism was at bottom an attempt to render Latin American reality in its dominant rural guise.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Trask twins have grown up with the lie that their mother died, and while Cal hides his wounds from that absence, Aron doesn’t.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Interior designers and professional organizers say most kitchens hide usable square footage in plain sight, trapped behind clutter, bad habits and bulky gear that could be stored smarter or edited out entirely.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Camouflage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camouflage. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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