OCCULTING Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

occulting

verb

present participle of occult

as in obscuring

to keep secret or shut off from view occulted their house from prying eyes by planting large trees around it the actor's private life had long been occulted by a contrived public persona

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Recent Examples of occulting During these events, the smaller lunar disk passes in front of the sun, occulting most of its surface, while leaving a sliver of its outer rim on show. —

Anthony Wood, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2026

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The star kept her beauty minimal for the Sunday morning sunbathing, styling her blonde hair down with shaggy face-framing bangs grazing her cheekbones and partially obscuring her eyes.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 Feb. 2026
Part of the reason Bragg didn’t know is that South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report admissions for measles, potentially obscuring the disease’s severity.

— Jennifer Berry Hawes, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026