CURTAINING Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

curtaining

verb

present participle of curtain

as in concealing

to keep secret or shut off from view she dropped her head in shame and curtained her face with her hair

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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

Definition of concealing

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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

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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

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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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