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Avoiding being taken for punishment
Answer for the clue "Avoiding being taken for punishment ", 6 letters:
hiding
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Word definitions for hiding in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a flogging," 1809, from hide (n.1), perhaps in reference to a whip or thong made of animal hide. Old English had hyde ðolian "to undergo a flogging," and hydgild "fine paid to save one's skin (from a punishment by flogging)." The English expression a hiding ...
Usage examples of hiding.
Dottie stood up from her hiding place behind an overturned sofa across the room, and made her way across the smashed lights and broken video equipment to his side, absently reloading from her bandoleer.
And when Karen called me out of my hiding place, to attend her by a window, the sky was acrawl with them.
But the fat was still there, hiding, scrambled-egg agglutinations of cholesterol.
He held Cric back, hiding behind some scrub, while agile Chipmunk worked his way into position.
A massive pseudopod of amorphous protoplasm rose ten feet into the air, quivered, dropped to the ground, broke free of the mother-body hiding below, and formed itself into an obscenely fat black spider the size of a pony.
Perhaps in lands where I am not already known as a figure of fun, an anchoress forever in hiding.
She had lovely hands, Jill thought, slender and graceful, with long fingernails that had been stained a tasteful orange-red with annatto seeds and polished to such a glossy perfection that Jill found herself hiding her own calloused fingers and bitten nails in her lap.
Israeli Southern Command at El Arish, where soldiers were hiding the slaughtered prisoners under the sand.
She got down on her hands and knees and crept from hiding place to hiding place, always keeping the bulk of a chest or an aumbry between herself and the killer.
As they passed his hiding place within the dense forest thicket, Ali Baba further heard the sounds of coarse laughter and the sort of language one did not generally associate with the upper echelons of polite society.
A moment later Babbie was on his knee, hiding her emotion in the front of his jacket, and he was trying his best to soothe her with characteristic Winslow nonsense.
Still, every now and then she would wake in the chasm night to the sound of floppers honking in the root mat, half dreaming about hiding on the rootwall, lumps of charcoal in her hands, looking up at the adze-cut end of the mainroot while hearing from below that phlegmy chuckle as Slysaw Bander came climbing up the stairs.
It was seeing that Byle Bander waiting for me on the bridge, like some old crawly-claw, hiding in a root hole.
Another, built like an athlete, passed him so quickly that Becker was sure he was hiding something.
The truth about Bibbs was in the poem which Edith had adopted: he had so thoroughly formed the over-sensitive habit of hiding his feelings that no doubt he had forgotten--by this time--where he had put some of them, especially those which concerned himself.