Synonyms:
disguise, camouflage
Meaning: an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something; "the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
disguise, mask
Meaning: make unrecognizable; "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"
Usage examples
I do not disguise the fact
Let us not disguise matters.
How astonishingly beautiful she was, even in this disguise!
"He travels on our ships, in disguise, coolie-class, on the geek-deck."
"It's all the same; Hathaway or Weatherby, the scoundrel can't disguise his personality.
Her reddish-brown colour with the tiger-like transverse stripes made an excellent disguise.
There was an ironical tone in his voice which he could not quite disguise and which astonished the coadjutor.
'The gods, taking the disguise of strangers from other lands, walk up and down cities in all sorts of forms;'
Suffice it that to disguise themselves they had to take the clothes of two peasants, whom they waylaid in a wood.
His smooth upper lip had been sufficient disguise, with his change of clothes, and a hair-cut by a country barber.