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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dissimulate
verb
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▪ Goneril and Regan used fraud to gain power, and now that they have it, no longer need to dissimulate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dissimulate

dissimulate \dis*sim"u*late\, v. i. To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dissimulate

1530s, from Latin dissimulatus, past participle of dissimulare "to disguise, hide, conceal, keep secret," from dis- (see dis-) + simulare (see simulate). Related: Dissimulated; dissimulating.

Wiktionary
dissimulate
  1. Feigning; simulating; pretending. v

  2. 1 (context intransitive English) To practise deception by concealment or omission or by feign a false appearance. 2 (context transitive English) To hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance. 3 (context transitive rare English) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.

WordNet
dissimulate

v. hide (feelings) from other people

Wikipedia
Dissimulate (album)

Dissimulate is the second album, released in 2002, by the death metal band The Berzerker. This is the only full-length album the band has released that features an actual drummer instead of a drum machine.

Usage examples of "dissimulate".

My Hellenism was cause for amusement, the more so in that ineptly I alternated between dissimulating and displaying it.

He dissimulated them even more courageously under the Empire--for he played the part of a kind of chamberlain to Bonaparte, this dear marquis.

The rose seems beautiful because at first sight it dissimulates, pretending to be so fleeting, and al­though it is frequently said of mortal beauty that it seems not of this earth, it is simply a corpse dissimulated by the favor of youth.

These things I mention, because many, ignorant of past things, and some also dissimulating what they know, if in Christian times they see any war protracted a little longer than they expected, straightway make a fierce and insolent attack on our religion, exclaiming that, but for it, the deities would have been supplicated still, according to ancient rites.

It is evident, however, that he hunted out and pursued, with a wonderful pleasantness of style and argument, and with a most pointed and insinuating urbanity, the foolishness of ignorant men, who thought that they knew this or that,-sometimes confessing his own ignorance, and sometimes dissimulating his knowledge, even in those very moral questions to which he seems to have directed the whole force of his mind.

For, as Plato liked and constantly affected the well-known method of his master Socrates, namely, that of dissimulating his knowledge or his opinions, it is not easy to discover dearly what he himself thought on various matters, any more than it is to discover what were the real opinions of Socrates.

When he introduced them, Hope put considerable energy into dissimulating her astonishment and contempt.

Louis Bonaparte had had dissimulating ministers such as Magne and Rouher.

It showed the artifact, still partially cloaked in its dissimulating synthetic atmosphere.

But not even in his books on philosophy does Tully dissimulate this poisonous opinion, for he there avows it more clearly than day.

The hack and the whore have much in common: late nights, venal gregariousness, social drinking, a desire to please, simulated liveliness, dissimulated exhaustion — you keep on having to do it when you don't feel like it.