concealment

Roget-categorie 528

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
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#528. Concealment

zelfstandig naamwoord

concealment — hiding etc. v. — occultation, mystification.
seal of secrecy — screen etc. 530 — disguise etc. 530 — masquerade — masked battery — hiding place etc. 530 — cryptography, steganography^† — freemasonry.
stealth, stealthiness, sneakiness — obreption^† — slyness etc. (cunning) 702.
latitancy^†, latitation^† — seclusion etc. 893 — privacy, secrecy, secretness^† — incognita.
reticence — reserve — mental reserve, reservation — arriere pensee [Fr.], suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision — silence etc. (taciturnity) 585 — suppression of truth etc. 544 — underhand dealing — closeness, secretiveness etc. adj. — mystery.
latency etc. 526 — snake in the grass — secret etc. 533 — stowaway.

werkwoord

conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight — lock up, seal up, bottle up.
encrypt, encode, cipher.
cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud — cover up one's tracks — screen from sight, screen from observation — drawing the veil — draw the curtain, close the curtain — curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over — be cloud, be mask — mask, disguise — ensconce, muffle, smother — befog — whisper.
keep from — keep back, keep to oneself — keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark — bury — sink, suppress — keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight — keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background — stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve — fence with a question — ignore etc. 460.
keep a secret, keep one's own counsel — hold one's tongue etc. (silence) 585 — make no sign, not let it go further — not breathe a word, not breathe a syllable about — not let the right hand know what the left is not let the right hand know what the left is doing — hide one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin.
keep in the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance — blind, blind the eyes — blindfold, hoodwink, mystify — puzzle etc. (render uncertain) 475 — bamboozle etc. (deceive) 545.
be concealed etc. v. — suffer an eclipse — retire from sight, couch — hide oneself — lie hid, lie in perdu [Fr.], lie in close — lie in ambush (ambush) 530 — seclude oneself etc. 893 — lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl — steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along — play at bopeep^†, play at hide and seek — hide in holes and corners — still hunt.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

concealed etc. v. — hidden — secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark — cryptic, cryptical^† — private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate — tortuous.
behind a screen etc. 530 — undercover, under an eclipse — in ambush, in hiding, in disguise — in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner — in the shade, in the dark — clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds^† — invisible etc. 447 — buried, underground, perdu [Fr.] — secluded etc. 893.
undisclosed etc. 529, untold etc. 527 — covert etc. (latent) 526 — untraceable — mysterious etc. (unintelligible) 519.
irrevealable^†, inviolable — confidential — esoteric — not to be spoken of — unmentionable.
obreptitious^†, furtive, stealthy, feline — skulking etc. v. — surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner — sly etc. (cunning) 702 — secretive, evasive — reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up — close, close as wax — taciturn etc. 585.

bijwoord

secretly etc. adj. — in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners — in the dark etc. adj.. januis clausis [Lat.], with closed doors, a huis clos [Fr.] — hugger mugger, a la derobee [Fr.] — under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table — sub rosa [Lat.], en tapinois [Fr.], in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce [Lat.], in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine^†.
behind the veil — beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil — hid from mortal vision — into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible^†, into the supreme mystery.
in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence — confidentially etc. adj. — between ourselves, between you and me — between you and me and the bedpost — entre nous [Fr.], inter nos, under the seal of secrecy — a couvert [Fr.].
underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night — stealthily etc. adj. — behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen etc. 530 — incognito — in camera.

uitdrukking

it must go no further, it will go no further — don't tell a soul — tell it not in Gath," nobody the wiser — alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Lat.] — let it be tenable in your silence still" [Hamlet]. [confidential disclosure to news reporters] background information, deep background information, deep background — background session, backgrounder — not for attribution

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