Definitions for hide

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hide hide

Spelling: [hahyd]

IPA: /haɪd/

Hide is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in hide (dehi).

Definitions for hide

noun

1. British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
2. the pelt or skin of one of the larger animals (cow, horse, buffalo, etc.), raw or dressed.
3. Informal. the skin of a human being: safety or welfare:
4. Australia and New Zealand Informal. impertinence; impudence.
5. a unit of land measurement varying from 60 to 120 acres (24 to 49 hectares) or more, depending upon local usage.

Idioms

1. hide nor hair, a trace or evidence, as of something missing: Also, hide or hair.

Verb phrases

1. hide out, to go into or remain in hiding:

verb (used with object)

1. to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered:
2. to obstruct the view of; cover up:
3. to conceal from knowledge or exposure; keep secret:
4. Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
5. to protect (a rope, as a boltrope of a sail) with a covering of leather.

verb (used without object)

1. to conceal oneself; lie concealed:

Origin of hide

before 900; Middle English hiden, Old English hȳdan; cognate with Old Frisian hūda, Greek keúthein to conceal

Examples for hide

And found out he is sure to be; he has not the brains to hide a thing!

Still, he cannot hide from his true calling as a hero; this is a world full of zombies after all.

You can hide your extreme views and duck from having to answer questions about them.

He does not hesitate to hide some Marxist books from her library because she fears that the military could use them against her.

They carefully scanned open windows along the route, looking for places where a shooter might hide.

Even for Mammon's sake Mr. Raymount was not the man to hide or mask his opinions.

Nothing save a rich garment could ever hide the plague-spot.

And he scarcely bothered to hide his chief ambition: to lead his country as prime minister.

At any rate, I won't be coward enough to try to hide it from her.

Of course it must be the same thing that made him take to the garret and hide there!