hid

past tense of hide
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as in lurked
to remain out of sight he hid in the closet while his roommate lied to the probation officer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hid
Verb
  • The defendants concealed the cash receipts from an accountant, who prepared their taxes, which led to the fraudulent omission of more than $17 million in gross sales from tax returns filed with the IRS.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The family travelled north from Central America for weeks, crossing rivers by night and riding concealed in smugglers’ trucks.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The other names on the list were obscured, leading to widespread fan speculation about his future opponents.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Those numbers didn't make headlines and, some experts fear, were obscured by the death toll.
    Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • For weeks, the New York Ripper case has lurked on the periphery of the series — a boogeyman that the show kept hinting was someone in Dexter’s life.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The number of people believed buried was revised down to 59, from 91, on Wednesday.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The men dropped onto Sulztalferner glacier in Tyrol’s Ötztal Valley and were said to have buried their parachutes in the snow before pressing on.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Millais covered her body with flowers that signify love, pain, innocence, and faithfulness.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened — or why she’s covered in her friends’ blood — Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
    Caitlin White, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Defenders downed or suppressed 439 drones and 39 missiles, the air force said, with eight other missiles failing to reach their targets.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement Amazon still faces another lawsuit brought by the FTC in 2023, which alleged that the company is an exploitative monopoly and illegally suppressed competition among online marketplaces.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For an artist who now owns her entire catalog, the track lands like a victory lap disguised as a reckoning.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Goodwin claimed Reid was disguised as a delivery driver for Deliveroo, a British online food delivery company, and traveled on an e-bike during all three shootings, the outlet reported.
    Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Hid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hid. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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