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verb

past tense of disguise
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Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Officers uncovered the remains of four monkeys, identified as bushmeat, concealed among other items.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The octopus’ position on the board is concealed, playing cards to bluff about their location, and sneaking around the board trying to grab its food.
    James Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Valeria Márquez, 23, a model and beauty influencer with more than 113,000 followers on TikTok, collapsed on camera after being shot in the head and chest by a masked gunman who fled the scene on a motorbike with an accomplice, prosecutors said.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2025
  • Al Jazeera television showed a photograph of Alexander standing next to masked fighters and a Red Cross official upon his release Monday, according to Reuters, and he is expected to be received at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv for treatment after 19 months in captivity.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, all these great locations and details are obscured constantly, muddled into blurry backgrounds.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • In the crowded parish hall, a sea of limbs and phones and flashes of light obscured the painting.
    James Factora, Them, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The experiments were conducted in a wind tunnel that simulated hovering flight conditions, with researchers focusing on accurately discerning wind directions during tethered flapping.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Depending on the intensity, duration and sequence of those vibrations, sensations such as being tapped, stroked or squeezed can be simulated.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Often, though, schools are left with no choice but to shut their doors when cities are covered in smoke and families flee under evacuation orders.
    Troy Closson, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The Vikings, settling in the late eighth century, found the islands covered in prehistoric sites.
    Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The aim, in both cases, is the same: to make thought and emotion indistinguishable.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
  • But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it.
    Alondra Nelson, Time, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • Caspar suppressed his urge to respond.
    Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Ukrainians are uncovering their country’s culinary history – and how its distinctive features were suppressed by the authorities during Soviet rule.
    Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Social Security’s internal workings are so recondite and poorly understood by average voters that numerous possible ways of imposing benefit cuts or otherwise harming the program are hiding in plain sight.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In retrospect, the integer distance problem was waiting for mathematicians who were willing to consider more unruly curves than hyperbolas and then draw on recondite tools from algebraic geometry and number theory to tame them.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
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“Disguised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disguised. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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