concealing

verb

present participle of conceal
1
as in hiding
to put into a hiding place wisely concealed the documents in a drawer beneath a false bottom

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2
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 Keith has been charged with felony concealing the death of another person and felony making false statements. — Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026 Now that Sugar’s inner monologue isn’t concealing his true self, Farrell opens up beautifully. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026 The authorities said the suspects' activities ranged from purchasing chemicals to concealing environmental information. — ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026 Years before the federal corruption case, the ethics commission investigated the Duongs for concealing donations to local politicians. — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026 That sentence is an umbrella concealing a whole lot of other details, however. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 3 Aug. 2026 He has been charged with murder, first-degree kidnapping and destroying remains and concealing death, according to online court records reviewed by PEOPLE. — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026 In laboratory tests, the cloak kept the temperature inside relatively uniform while restoring the heat pattern outside, effectively concealing a complex 3D object from an infrared camera when heat was applied from different directions. — New Atlas, 29 July 2026 Headline figures such as tasks completed, queries handled or hours saved can look impressive while concealing errors, rework, poor customer outcomes and escalating operating expenses. — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concealing
  1. hiding
  2. obscuring
  3. burying
  4. covering
  5. disguising
  6. suppressing
  7. masking
Verb
  • Risk intelligence gives marketplaces visibility into emerging threats as well as those hiding in plain sight.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • In videos posted to his Instagram account, Gallegos can be seen hiding underneath a table as plumes of dust burst in the air and parts of the ceiling crashed into the ground.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of hiding
Verb
  • No political spin, just a focus on the numbers from governments’ own reports and how their unique accounting rules and financial definitions are obscuring the full truth of their financial story.
    — Sheila Weinberg, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Hundreds of millions more watching from outside of this narrow corridor will also bear witness to a spectacular partial solar eclipse, as the moon passes in front of our parent star, without fully obscuring its surface.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of obscuring
Verb
  • In Bosnia, people are still identifying and burying their dead 31 years after the Srebrenica massacre.
    — Lina Sergie Attar, Time, 6 Aug. 2026
  • For the three children of the stranger who had returned to seek refuge, fifteen years had passed between the collective joy of independence and the personal tragedy of burying their father in a graveyard already full of their uncles’ memories.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of burying
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  • Enterprise legal teams in 2026 routinely insist on data exit covering prompts, embeddings, and fine-tunes.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Conti recommends setting up a simple observation board made from cardboard and covering it with a white sheet.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of covering
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  • Nail concealer is an alternative to traditional nail polish that helps improve nails while disguising imperfections.
    — Alexis Berger, InStyle, 25 July 2026
  • That can remove visual boundaries, disguising any lines that would otherwise truncate your walls.
    — Andee Tagle, NPR, 19 July 2026
Definition of disguising
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  • Mukhopadhyay said the minister’s resignation has made people less fearful of protesting against a government that critics have long accused of suppressing dissent.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Saharan Dust Saharan dust is another factor suppressing activity.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of suppressing
Verb
  • If a healthcare organization that uses AI to summarize records were to find problems involving missing queries, for instance, the organization might work on its ability to log queries while also masking sensitive fields to improve HIPAA compliance.
    — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Welbeck led the way in masking that blow, as Brighton ended up with a respectable total of 52 league goals last season — 10th-best in the division.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of masking

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