hide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hīd
ipa: /haɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: hides
form: hiding
form: hid
form: hidden
form: hid
form: hyde
Etymology: From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūdijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *hūdijaną (“to conceal”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
The verb was originally weak. In the King James Version of the Bible (1611), both hid and hidden are used for the past participle.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch huiden, Low German (ver)hüden, (ver)hüen (“to hide, cover, conceal”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin custōs, Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to conceal”), Sanskrit कुहरम् (kuharam, “cave”). Related to hut and sky.
Senses: examples: text: He hides his magazines under the bed.
text: The politicians were accused of keeping information hidden from the public.
text: 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the "Hirondelle" to avoid meeting him.
text: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
synonyms: conceal
occult
hide away
secrete
veil
disguise
bury
antonyms: disclose
expose
reveal
show
uncover
visiblize
visualize
glosses: To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
examples: text: Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref: 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
text: Baby, I know places we won't be found, and
They'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
'Cause I, I know places we can hide
I know places
ref: 2014 October 27, Taylor Swift, Ryan Tedder, “I Know Places (Taylor's Version)”, in 1989 (Taylor's Version), performed by Taylor Swift, published 27 October 2023:
synonyms: go undercover
hide away
hide out
lie low
hole up
antonyms: reveal
show
glosses: To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.
Derived terms: autohide
hiddle
hide-a-bed
hideable
hide-all
hide and coop
hide-and-die syndrome
hide-and-go-seek
hide and go seek
hide and seek
hide-and-seek
hideaway
hidebehind
hide behind
hide-hole
hide in plain sight
hide in the closet
hideling
hidelings
hide nor hair
hide one's light under a bushel
hide-out
hideout
hide out
hider
hide-rope
hide the ball
hide the salami
hide the sausage
hidness
huddle
one can run but one can't hide
rehide
unhide