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Disguised

Disguise \Dis*guise"\ (?; 232), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disguised; p. pr. & vb. n. Disguising.] [OE. desguisen, disgisen, degisen, OF. desguisier, F. d['e]guiser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + guise. See Guise.]

  1. To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.

    Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.

    All God's angels come to us disguised.
    --Lowell.

  3. To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

    I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker of five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.
    --Spectator.

    Syn: To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign; pretend; secrete. See Conceal.

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disguised

vb. (en-past of: disguise)

WordNet
disguised
  1. adj. having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading; "hidden agenda"; "masked threat" [syn: cloaked, masked]

  2. deliberately concealed as if with a veil; "disguised threats"

Usage examples of "disguised".

Behind him he had expected to see a horde of demons disguised as apes and panthers.

Disguised as a Venetian nobleman, he proposed to sit for his portrait to that Antonella who first brought the secret from Flanders, and while Antonella worked with unsuspicious openness, Gian Bellini watched the process and stole the secret.

At the masked ball, he speaks in confidence to the disguised Claudio as though addressing Benedick, warning him that Don Pedro seems romantically interested in the young lady for himself.

One-eyed Bogan intended to shave and join the Army disguised as a lassie.

Stop sounding like a brickie on a scaffold, Petro - I need to be disguised.

Taken off to the Imperial military planet of Carida, he had suffered weeks of torture and conditioning as xenosurgeons removed portions of his brain and replaced them with vat-grown organic circuits that allowed Furgan to use Terpfen as a perfectly disguised puppet.

La Roque, who instantly recognized a long lost friend disguised under the habit of a Carthusian, rushed into his arms.

Fortunately there was no one about just then, and the three travellers were out of sight before the cartman and his wife had an opportunity of telling any one about the foreigners whom they had seen disguised as Chinamen.

Texas ship was followed, but an unlucky few had to take evasive action, blinking in and out of Cassiopeian space to lose the Empire scouts and Vandys and, once, a freighter disguised as a Texican.

She was one of the enchanted cats who disguised themselves as beautiful women to cause trouble for men.

We had met years before while both of us happened to be serving in the Chac Yuul, disguised as common mercenaries.

I spent January reading and rereading it, partly out of envy, because there it was, in cold print between hard covers, the same place, the same people, some of the same doctors, including a thinly disguised Bolshakov, in a nonfictional memoir that was distinctly Chekhovian, and, despite being deliberately oversimplified or nonarch in style, was greatly readable.

It simply happened that The Shadow was weeding out the disguised crooks from the men who really belonged here.

Force, the entity, disguised in folklore under such familiar names as the Black Man, Satan, Lucifer, and such unfamiliar names as Kutchie, of the Australian Dieris, Tuna, of the Esquimaux, the African Abonsam, and the Swiss Stratteli.

To the west lay the farthest tip of the Storm Margin, its rocky draws and moraines disguised as rolling hills by a thick layer of snow.