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concealment

/kuhn-seel-muhnt/US // kənˈsil mənt //

隐蔽性,隐瞒,隐匿,掩饰

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of concealing.
    • : the state of being concealed.
    • : a means or place of hiding.

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Examples

  • In some cases, concealment operates even on the surface of the image.

  • The temptations and seductions that are bound up with such power and concealment form one of Thomson’s main themes.

  • Severson, Aguirre and attorneys Thomas Girardi and Larry Shea last month filed a lawsuit alleging waste of city funds and a “misrepresentation and concealment of material facts” that led the city to enter into a one-sided real estate deal.

  • Efron, in a blink, went from shy concealment to peacock-ish display.

  • In contrast to this pattern of accidental or deliberate concealment there were some well-advertised flourishes of national pride.

  • At the News of the World, he said his concealment techniques grew lax and he started using company phones.

  • If money is spent on concealment, what is that money but a campaign expenditure?

  • And maybe its concealment showed his victory over those lures, of both the flesh and the brush.

  • I never trouble my head about details; it is enough, the man is a political refugee, and his object concealment.

  • What was equally important, a thick clump of cottonwood and willow furnished tolerably secure concealment.

  • The friends of the monarchy soon found all efforts at concealment unavailing.

  • The church on the conversion of Constantine emerged from the concealment of the Catacombs to the sunshine of imperial favour.

  • But the institutions of the United Provinces were not well fitted for the purpose of concealment.