'Hiding' definitions:
Definition of 'hiding'
From: WordNet
noun
The activity of keeping something secret [syn: concealment, concealing, hiding]
noun
The state of being hidden; "he went into hiding"
Definition of 'Hiding'
From: GCIDE
- Hide \Hide\ (h[imac]d), v. t. [imp. Hid (h[i^]d); p. p. Hidden (h[i^]d"d'n), Hid; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiding (h[imac]d"[i^]ng).] [OE. hiden, huden, AS. h[=y]dan; akin to Gr. key`qein, and prob. to E. house, hut, and perh. to E. hide of an animal, and to hoard. Cf. Hoard.]
- 1. To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete. [1913 Webster]
- A city that is set on an hill can not be hid. --Matt. v. 15. [1913 Webster]
- If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing. [1913 Webster]
- Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To remove from danger; to shelter. [1913 Webster]
- In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. --Ps. xxvi. 5. [1913 Webster]
- To hide one's self, to put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself." --Prov. xxii. 3.
- To hide the face, to withdraw favor. "Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled." --Ps. xxx. 7.
- To hide the face from. (a) To overlook; to pardon. "Hide thy face from my sins." --Ps. li. 9. (b) To withdraw favor from; to be displeased with.
- Syn: To conceal; secrete; disguise; dissemble; screen; cloak; mask; veil. See Conceal. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hiding'
From: GCIDE
- Hiding \Hid"ing\, n. A flogging. [Colloq.] --Charles Reade. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hiding'
From: GCIDE
- Hide \Hide\ (h[imac]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hided; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiding.] To flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng. & Low, U. S.] [1913 Webster] hide-and-seek
Definition of 'Hiding'
From: GCIDE
- Hiding \Hid"ing\, n. The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment. [1913 Webster]
- There was the hiding of his power. --Hab. iii. 4. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hiding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- asylum,
- beating,
- blanketing,
- blocking,
- blotting out,
- bolt-hole,
- burial,
- burying,
- cache,
- cementwork,
- cloaking,
- clouding,
- coating,
- collapse,
- concealedness,
- concealing,
- concealment,
- conquering,
- conquest,
- corner,
- cover,
- coverage,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covert,
- covertness,
- coverture,
- cranny,
- crash,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- curtaining,
- dark corner,
- darkening,
- deathblow,
- debacle,
- deception,
- defeat,
- den,
- destruction,
- downfall,
- dressing-down,
- drubbing,
- dugout,
- eclipse,
- eclipsing,
- envelopment,
- enwrapment,
- enwrapping,
- failure,
- fall,
- foxhole,
- funk hole,
- hiddenness,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hidey hole,
- hiding place,
- hole,
- incrustation,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- lair,
- lambasting,
- larruping,
- lathering,
- laying on,
- leathering,
- licking,
- mantling,
- masking,
- mastery,
- mystification,
- niche,
- nonrevealing,
- nook,
- obduction,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- obscuring,
- occultation,
- overcoming,
- overlaying,
- overspreading,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- paddling,
- pargeting,
- plasterwork,
- putting away,
- quietus,
- recess,
- refuge,
- retreat,
- ruin,
- sanctuary,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secret place,
- secretion,
- sheathing,
- shielding,
- shrouding,
- smash,
- stash,
- stuccowork,
- subdual,
- subduing,
- subjugation,
- subterfuge,
- superimposition,
- superposition,
- tanning,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- trouncing,
- uncommunicativeness,
- undercovert,
- undisclosing,
- undoing,
- unrevealing,
- upholstering,
- upholstery,
- vanquishment,
- veiling,
- walloping,
- Waterloo,
- whaling,
- whipping,
- wrapping