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verb | noun disguisedisguise1 /dɪsˈgaɪz/ ●●○ verb [transitive] ETYMOLOGYdisguise1Origin: 1300-1400 Old French desguiser, from guise appearance VERB TABLEdisguise |
| Present | I, you, we, they | disguise | | he, she, it | disguises | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | disguised | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have disguised | | he, she, it | has disguised | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had disguised | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will disguise | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have disguised |
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| Present | I | am disguising | | he, she, it | is disguising | | you, we, they | are disguising | | Past | I, he, she, it | was disguising | | you, we, they | were disguising | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been disguising | | he, she, it | has been disguising | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been disguising | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be disguising | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been disguising |
► thinly disguised The game is a thinly disguised form of gambling. ► thinly disguised His thinly disguised (=not well hidden at all) hatred of pop music was well known. ► disguise the fact that Spices helped disguise the fact that food was not fresh. THESAURUS to deliberately put or keep something in a place where it cannot easily be seen or found► hide to deliberately put or keep something in a place where it cannot easily be seen or found: Marcia hid the pictures in the back of the closet. ► cover (up) to put something over something else in order to hide it: He quickly covered the unwrapped presents with a blanket. ► conceal formal to hide something carefully: Several pounds of cocaine were concealed in the trunk of the car. ► secrete formal to hide something in a secret place. Used especially in writing: The money had been secreted somewhere within the house. ► disguise to make someone or something look different so that other people do not recognize him, her, or it: The security camera is disguised as a rock so you don’t even notice it. ► camouflage to hide something by making it look the same as the things around it: The soldiers were camouflaged in green and brown and nearly disappeared in the forest. 1 to change your appearance so that people cannot recognize you: disguise yourself as somebody/something To get into the building, I disguised myself as a reporter.be disguised as somebody/something The two women were disguised as nuns.► see thesaurus at hide12to change the usual appearance, sound, taste, etc. of something so that people do not recognize it: The park’s waterfalls disguise the traffic noise from the freeway.disguise something as something Well, it may be hard to disguise junk as health food. The game is a thinly disguised form of gambling.3to hide a fact or feeling so that people will not notice it: Dan tried to disguise his feelings for Katie. His thinly disguised (=not well hidden at all) hatred of pop music was well known. Spices helped disguise the fact that food was not fresh. [Origin: 1300–1400 Old French desguiser, from guise appearance] verb | noun disguisedisguise2 ●●○ noun [countable, uncountable] ► in disguise The woman was really a police officer in disguise. ► a master of disguise (=someone who is very good at changing their appearance in different ways) ► in disguise “Tax reform” is just a tax increase in disguise. 1something that you wear to change your appearance and hide who you are, or the act of wearing this: The dark glasses were part of her disguise. The woman was really a police officer in disguise.a master of disguise (=someone who is very good at changing their appearance in different ways)2something that hides what something else is really like: His charming manner was a clever disguise for his evil intentions. “Tax reform” is just a tax increase in disguise. → see also a blessing in disguise at blessing (4) |