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curtain

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of curtain

1 something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth

  • there has long been a curtain of secrecy surrounding that group
Synonyms of curtain

blanket, cloak, cope, cover, cover-up, covering, coverture, hood, mantle, mask, pall, penumbra, robe, shroud, veil, wraps
Words Related to curtain

blind, concealer, screen, shield

fig leaf, Potemkin village, Trojan horse

camouflage, disguise, facade (also façade), face, mask, veneer

gloss, varnish

2 curtains plural pieces of cloth hung to darken, decorate, or divide a room

  • the kittens keep climbing the curtains
Synonyms of curtain

drapery, drapes
Words Related to curtain

hanging(s), shade, tapestry, window shade

3 curtains plural the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities

  • it'll be curtains for us if we're caught
Synonyms of curtain

death, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passage, passing, quietus, sleep
Words Related to curtain

casualty, fatality

martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide

annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin

assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter
Near Antonyms of curtain

existence, life

creation, genesis, origination, rise
Antonyms of curtain

birth, nativity

curtain

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of curtain

to keep secret or shut off from view

  • she dropped her head in shame and curtained her face with her hair
Synonyms of curtain

belie, blanket, blot out, cloak, conceal, cover, disguise, enshroud, hide, mask, obscure, occult, paper over, screen, shroud, suppress, veil
Words Related to curtain

bury, camouflage, cover (up), smother

gild, gloss (over), varnish, whitewash

becloud, bedim, befog, block, cloud, darken, eclipse, obstruct, occlude, overcast, overshadow, shade
Near Antonyms of curtain

bring out, present

clarify, illuminate

advertise, air, broadcast, get out, proclaim, publicize, publish, spread
Antonyms of curtain

bare, disclose, display, divulge, expose, reveal, show, uncloak, uncover, unmask, unveil

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