单词 | occulting |
释义 | occult1 of 3verb oc·cult ə-ˈkəlt ä- occulted; occulting; occults transitive verb : to shut off from view or exposure : cover, eclipse the light of a star that was about to be occulted … by Uranus itself Jonathan Eberhart occulter noun occult 2 of 3adjective oc·cult ə-ˈkəlt ä-; ˈä-ˌkəlt 1 : not revealed : secret deep subterranean occult jealousy J. C. Powys 2 : not easily apprehended or understood : abstruse, mysterious occult matters like nuclear physics, radiation effects and the designing of rockets Robert Bendiner 3 : hidden from view : concealed occult underground passages 4 : of or relating to the occult … the occult arts—astrology, palmistry, card reading … Amy Fine Collins occult practices 5 : not manifest or detectable by clinical methods alone occult carcinoma also : not present in macroscopic amounts occult blood in a stool occultly adverb occult 3 of 3noun oc·cult ə-ˈkəlt ä-; ˈä-ˌkəlt : matters regarded as involving the action or influence of supernatural or supernormal powers or some secret knowledge of them —used with the occulting verbas 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 Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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