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UK
/dɪsɡˈaɪz/
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[ US /dɪsˈɡaɪz/ ]
[ US /dɪsˈɡaɪz/ ]
NOUN
- any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity
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the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
he is a master of disguise -
an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something
the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories
VERB
-
make unrecognizable
We disguised our faces before robbing the bank
The herb masks the garlic taste
How To Use disguise In A Sentence
- The fifth position went to a phishing activity, in which a university hacker stole Internet users' personal information by luring them to provide confidential data on disguised Web sites.
- A similar attempt at reconciling Absolute Idealism and monadism had been made by Lotze, and in both cases it remains an open question whether this is not pre-established harmony in disguise. Francis Herbert Bradley
- It took its corporeal form in the living room, disguised as a humanoid figure made of what could be described as a giant cotton ball.
- Another suggests that there are as many as ten lawyers in the city disguised as tourists. Times, Sunday Times
- In the night of the 28th 2,000 French dragoons each laden with 60 pounds of gunpowder arrived at the circumvallating walls in disguise.
- Disguised first as a horse dealer and later as a holy man, he successfully blarneyed his way through regions, which were not a part of British-held India at the time.
- What began as a cheap and easy way to disguise the taste of alcohol in prohibition America quickly became the drink of choice for the privileged fast set of the 1920s.
- With ill-disguised pride Margarethe serves onto the best Ming china. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
- I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster. Là-bas
- Her voice was disguised to conceal her identity.