disguise
English
Etymology
Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”)" (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈɡaɪz/, /dɪzˈɡaɪz/
- General American IPA(key): /dɪˈskaɪz/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: dis‧guise
- Rhymes: -aɪz
Noun
disguise (countable and uncountable, plural disguises)
- Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
- A cape and moustache completed his disguise.
- (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
- The act of disguising, notably as a ploy.
- Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
- (archaic) A change of behaviour resulting from intoxication.
Synonyms
Translations
attire to hide/assume an identity
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that which masks what's beneath
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act of disguising
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Verb
disguise (third-person singular simple present disguises, present participle disguising, simple past and past participle disguised)
- (transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
- Spies often disguise themselves.
- Macaulay
- Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
- (transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
- He disguised his true intentions.
- (archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
- Spectator
- I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the slip.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- But my lord was angry, and being disguised with liquor too, he would not let him go till they played more; and play they did, and the luck still went the same way; […]
- Spectator
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to change the appearance
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to prevent revealing something secret
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