Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: masked
IPA transcription: [m'æskt]
Pronunciations of masked
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: masked
    Meaning: having markings suggestive of a mask; "the masked face of a raccoon"
  • Synonyms: cloaked, disguised, masked
    Meaning: having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading; "hidden agenda"; "masked threat"
Usage examples
  • My first observation was by way of opening a masked battery.
  • Whitcomb, instantly awake, gazed at the masked face without a word or movement.
  • He coveted what was not his, and masked his envy with a hypocrisy that now appeared contemptible.
  • What is the good of being penniless--with the trifling exception of twopence--unless you are prepared to accept your position in the spirit of a masked ball at Covent Garden?'
  • A man of good stature, broad at the shoulders, slender at the hips, he poised himself with athletic grace--the lower part of his face masked by what Lanyard took to be a dark silk handkerchief.
  • Indeed, it was essential to beat a retreat because some twenty natives, armed with bows and slings, appeared barely a hundred paces off, on the outskirts of a thicket that masked the horizon to our right.
  • Peering cautiously between the curtains, he saw, at the forward end of the sleeper, a masked man with a revolver in each hand, while the mirror behind him revealed another figure at the rear, masked and armed in like manner.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Krampus, License CC BY-SA 4.0