(~s, hiding, hid, hidden)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ something or someone, you put them in a place where they cannot easily be seen or found.
He hid the bicycle in the hawthorn hedge...
They could see that I was terrified, and hid me until the coast was clear.
= conceal
VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you ~ or if you ~ yourself, you go somewhere where you cannot easily be seen or found.
At their approach the little boy scurried away and hid...
They hid themselves behind a tree.
VERB: V, V pron-refl
3.
If you ~ your face, you press your face against something or cover your face with something, so that people cannot see it.
She hid her face under the collar of his jacket and she started to cry...
VERB: V n
4.
If you ~ what you feel or know, you keep it a secret, so that no one knows about it.
Lee tried to ~ his excitement...
VERB: V n
5.
If something ~s an object, it covers it and prevents it from being seen.
The man’s heavy moustache hid his upper lip completely...
VERB: V n
6.
A ~ is a place which is built to look like its surroundings. Hides are used by people who want to watch or photograph animals and birds without being seen by them. (mainly BRIT; in AM, use blind )
N-COUNT
7.
A ~ is the skin of a large animal such as a cow, horse, or elephant, which can be used for making leather.
...the process of tanning animal ~s.
= skin
N-VAR
8.
see also hidden , hiding