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Concealment definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONCEALMENT, n.
1. Forbearance of disclosure; a keeping close or secret; as the concealment of opinions or passions.
2. The act of hiding, covering, or withdrawing from sight; as the concealment of the face by a mask, or of the person by any cover or shelter.
3. The state of being hid or concealed; privacy; as a project formed in concealment.
4. The place of hiding; a secret place; retreat from observation; cover from sight.
The cleft tree offers its kind concealment to a few, their food its insects, and its moss their nests.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the condition of being concealed or hidden [syn: privacy, privateness, secrecy, concealment]
2: a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background" [syn: screen, cover, covert, concealment]
3: the activity of keeping something secret [syn: concealment, concealing, hiding]

Merriam Webster's

noun see conceal

U.S. Military Dictionary

(*) The protection from observation or surveillance. See also camouflage; cover; screen.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Concealment Con*ceal"ment, n. [OF. concelement.] 1. The act of concealing; the state of being concealed. But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. --Shak. Some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up awhile. --Shak. 2. A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation. The cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few. --Thomson. 3. A secret; out of the way knowledge. [Obs.] Well read in strange concealments. --Shak. 4. (Law) Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. --Wharton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Concealment is the state of being hidden or the act of hiding something. ...the concealment of weapons. 2. The concealment of information or a feeling involves keeping it secret. His concealment of his true motives was masterly... I think there was deliberate concealment of relevant documents. N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Concealing, secreting, secretion, hiding, covering, screening, burying, covering up, keeping secret. 2. Secrecy, dissembling, disguises, indirection, dark ways, secret methods. 3. Privacy, secrecy. 4. Retreat, shelter (from observation), hiding-place.

Moby Thesaurus

abri, air-raid shelter, airtight secrecy, asylum, bolt-hole, bomb shelter, bombproof, bunker, cache, cave, close secrecy, closeness, corner, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, crypticness, cubby, cubbyhole, cyclone cellar, dark corner, den, disappearance, discreetness, discretion, dugout, earth, evasion, evasiveness, fallout shelter, foxhole, funk hole, hiddenness, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, immateriality, imperceptibility, indiscernibility, invisibility, lair, niche, nonappearance, nook, recess, refuge, retreat, safety zone, sanctuary, secrecy, secret place, secretiveness, secretness, shelter, stash, storm cave, storm cellar, subterfuge, the dark, the invisible, the unseen, trench, uncommunicativeness, undercovert, unperceivability, unseeableness, unsubstantiality, viewlessness