DISGUISE


Meaning of DISGUISE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪsgaɪz ]

( disguises, disguising, disguised)

1.

If you are in disguise , you are not wearing your usual clothes or you have altered your appearance in other ways, so that people will not recognize you.

You’ll have to travel in disguise...

He was wearing that ridiculous disguise...

N-VAR : oft in N

2.

If you disguise yourself , you put on clothes which make you look like someone else or alter your appearance in other ways, so that people will not recognize you.

She disguised herself as a man so she could fight on the battlefield.

VERB : V pron-refl as n , also V pron-refl

• dis‧guised

The extremists entered the building disguised as medical workers...

ADJ : usu v-link ADJ , oft ADJ as n

3.

To disguise something means to hide it or make it appear different so that people will not know about it or will not recognize it.

He made no attempt to disguise his agitation...

VERB : V n

• dis‧guised

This is lust thinly disguised as love.

ADJ

4.

a blessing in disguise: see blessing

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