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 He has been charged with murder, two counts of indecent behavior involving a minor, and concealing a corpse. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 The cases target people the department accuses of concealing criminal activity, faking their identities or lying to the government to get their citizenship. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 Kymberli Bowden, 45, has also been charge two counts of felony child abuse and concealing a death, police say. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2026 The tax evasion charge involved concealing income and filing false tax returns for that year, according to the indictment. — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026 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

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The third suspect acknowledged receiving the paintings at his home and hiding them behind a wall built beneath a staircase after the theft.

— SYLVIE CORBET, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
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

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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According to Iran Human Rights Monitor, the force has evolved into a powerful internal security institution involved in suppressing anti-government demonstrations, monitoring political activity and enforcing the regime's ideological restrictions.

— Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
Cybersecurity specialist Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) decides to turn whistleblower upon discovering that the US government has been suppressing evidence of extra-terrrestrial life, as part of a cover-up that goes back decades.

— Tom Bailey, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of suppressing

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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

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