[ UK /dɪsɡˈa‍ɪz/ ]
[ US /dɪsˈɡaɪz/ ]
NOUN
  1. any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity
  2. the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
    he is a master of disguise
  3. an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something
    the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories
VERB
  1. make unrecognizable
    We disguised our faces before robbing the bank
    The herb masks the garlic taste
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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.
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