verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hide/conceal sb’s identity
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She used a false name to conceal her identity.
hide/conceal your amusement
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There’s no need to hide your amusement. I’m well aware of it.
hide/conceal your excitement
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He tried to hide his excitement, but his voice was shaking.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
barely
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The party leadership - Neil Kinnock included - could barely conceal their delight when the vote was declared.
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Chutra, naturally, boasted all afternoon and treated my Kutchi friends with barely concealed disdain.
often
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Judges present decisions behind the veil of abstract principle which often conceals the naked face of consequentialist considerations of loss distribution.
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Drug use is often concealed even from close friends.
■ NOUN
attempt
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She made no attempt to conceal the £6.99 price label.
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One of them was using a much more powerful torch than Canon Oglethorpe's, without any attempt to conceal its light.
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He climbed into the back seat and looked towards Annie's cabin, making little attempt to conceal himself or keep low.
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The policeman made no attempt to conceal himself.
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Sometimes disagreement, in spite of attempts to conceal it, will become so public as to prejudice a party's hopes of electoral success.
difference
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The figures reported in Table 1 are averages and conceal quite large differences among the schools.
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However, this relationship concealed some significant differences between subjects, being stronger for science subjects.
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Regional statistics, however, conceal local differences .
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But this consensus conceals important differences , especially those that concern when cruelty occurs.
effort
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In the autumn of 1936, however, they needed each other and accordingly made an effort to conceal their mutual distrust.
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It took an effort to conceal her disappointment.
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Miss Haines too favoured Clara, but being young and honourable she made every effort to conceal it.
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The effort of concealing her love was almost impossible even though it was imperative.
fact
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Such crude alignments concealed the fact that realists such as Fairfield Porter or Freud were no more politically committed than their abstract colleagues.
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And they can not conceal the facts by engaging in what is little more than a charade.
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Although Michael Lee concealed the fact very well indeed, Katherine was well aware of his leanings.
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If the prophecy worried her, she was managing to conceal the fact .
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Otherwise he concealed the fact that he was in the army as far as possible.
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If anyone did know her secret, that person certainly concealed the fact well.
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She sat down to conceal the fact that she was trembling.
identity
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Here the passive enables the speaker to conceal the identity of the informant.
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One of the most compelling elements in the myth is the necessity of concealing your true identity .
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He concealed his identity with such success that his desire to remain hidden was probably deliberate.
truth
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You shouldn't have tried to conceal the truth from me.
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Set in San Diego, the play examines the tangled web woven by those who conceal certain truths from others.
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It represents the sublimation of suffering into beauty, the formation of a beautiful illusion to conceal the painful truth .
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But the whole thing smacks of a cover-up to conceal the truth about falling standards in our schools.
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Was there any real difference between concealing the truth from a man and placing a wire in his head?
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But as usual the statistics conceal the truth .
variation
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As with most averages, these percentages conceal a degree of variation between individual schools.
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Waiting time by specialty is meaningless as it conceals a wide variation among consultants' clinics.
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This figure had increased substantially since 1964 and, of course, conceals considerable variations for individual councillors.
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This, in its turn, may conceal considerable variation in practice.
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As with schools, though, these global figures conceal great variation from subject to subject.
weapon
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In order to conceal weapons , secret pockets were sewn into the linings of coats.
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Six more states, including Texas, implemented laws on Jan. 1 that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons .
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A kindergartner gets caught with a butter knife in his school backpack and is expelled for carrying a concealed weapon .
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Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
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The 8 {-by 14-inch paper outlines an argument that the Arizona Constitution already guarantees the right to carry concealed weapons .
■ VERB
carry
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Six more states, including Texas, implemented laws on Jan. 1 that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.
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A kindergartner gets caught with a butter knife in his school backpack and is expelled for carrying a concealed weapon.
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The 8 {-by 14-inch paper outlines an argument that the Arizona Constitution already guarantees the right to carry concealed weapons.
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Permits to carry concealed handguns are hard to come by, issued only at the discretion of local law enforcement officials.
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Anyone who meets a few basic requirements can get a permit to carry a concealed gun.
manage
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If the prophecy worried her, she was managing to conceal the fact.
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There was evidence that despite torture and execution, the clergy at the cathedral had managed to conceal it.
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She managed to conceal the physical revulsion she always felt from close contact with this man.
try
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Several times, he is seen rummaging about in the garbage bag, possibly trying to conceal something.
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I stood behind him, trying to conceal my fear and distaste.
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Others tried to conceal their sorrow by swamping it with alcohol.
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You shouldn't have tried to conceal the truth from me.
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She shivered and rubbed her arms, trying to conceal her rising agitation.
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Harrison had never tried to conceal his dislike for the Major and Carew.
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It s as if we were trying to conceal our poverty under a blanket.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A wide-brimmed hat concealed her graying hair.
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Customs officers found a kilogram of cocaine that Smith had concealed inside his suitcase.
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Hawkins was incapable of concealing how he felt from his close friends.
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He managed to conceal the fact that he had been in prison and so got a job as a security officer.
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Her legs were concealed to the ankle by a loose flowing skirt.
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I yawned, not bothering to conceal my boredom.
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Kim could barely conceal her annoyance that I had arrived so late.
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Several drug companies are accused of concealing information from the Food and Drug Administration.
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Several kilos of drugs had been concealed in the back of the truck.
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The secret police had concealed microphones in the walls.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But lately he'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave, Rampage.
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If he was surprised by the grubbiness of the ill-equipped Vicarage kitchen he concealed it.
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My fatigue pants were so baggy they almost concealed my combat boots.
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Several times, he is seen rummaging about in the garbage bag, possibly trying to conceal something.
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Why had Aranyos concealed this from him?