CONCEALING Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

concealing

verb

present participle of conceal

as in hiding

to put into a hiding place wisely concealed the documents in a drawer beneath a false bottom

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as in obscuring

to keep secret or shut off from view the defense attorney accused the prosecutor of trying to conceal exculpatory evidence

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Recent Examples of concealing In both incidents, the suspects are shown concealing their faces. — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026 Both were accused of concealing the dangers of their very profitable products. — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Russia may be concealing signal repeaters inside Ukrainian cities to help its long-range drones evade air defenses and strike with greater precision, a weapons expert told Fox News Digital. — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2026 Prosecutors accuse Lui of concealing the servers’ final destination through third-country shipments and false paperwork. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026 The firm unraveled in 2025 after prosecutors accused its founder and chief financial officer of concealing hundreds of millions of dollars in financial problems from lenders and investors, a case bolstered by the CFO’s guilty plea. — Alex Volonte, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026 The 18-year-old accused in her death, Kingston Bradley, remains at the Cobb County jail on charges of murder and concealing the death of another. — Caroline Silva, AJC.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Make roots easier to work around by concealing them with mulch or groundcovering plants that don’t need trimming. — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 28 Sep. 2026 Kingston Bradley, 18, was initially charged with concealing the death of another person. — Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026

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The series brings 10 strangers together in an institutional setting for seven days, with each person trying to guess the true occupations of the others while hiding their own identities.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Officers found Blanco hiding in the basement of a nearby home and recovered a knife from a panel box, police said.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of hiding

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Just such an October weather pattern occurred 61 years ago, obscuring predawn views of the spectacular Comet Ikeya-Seki for most observers east of the Mississippi — an ironic fate for the most brilliant comet of the 20th century.

— Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Today’s problem is hyperscalers spending themselves into oblivion, spreading inflation well beyond Silicon Valley and obscuring problems nearly everywhere else.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of obscuring

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After the hanging, Sepahi’s family was reportedly prevented by authorities from burying their son in his hometown.

— Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
The limits of burying the bad news Each of these interventions, whether reckless, self-destructive trade barriers, massive military invasions, or offensive divisive speeches, soaks up attention.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of burying

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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
Alas, by disguising themselves in earthling form, these superior beings must submit themselves to the worst indignities of the human condition — namely the frequent need to go to the bathroom and the constant nuisance of dealing with emotions.

— Cortlyn Kelly, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of disguising

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Brainwave-reading sleep headbands and noise-masking sleep headphones look similar from the outside but work in very different ways.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Concealing his condition, adrenaline masking his pain, Manganiello powered through a meeting with Affleck, offered him the role of Deathstroke, the main villain in the Batman movie Affleck was writing, directing and starring in.

— Joe Manganiello, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of masking

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