How do you use the word "hide" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hide": You are saying you intentionally hide your good looks? I can't hide the fact from you.

Hide Meaning

/haɪd/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.

verbTo put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.

Sentence Examples

You are saying you intentionally hide your good looks?

I can't hide the fact from you.

He did not try to hide his dislike of his boss.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

skin cover fell

Antonyms:

show

CEFR Practice Quiz

The smart squirrel will ____ its food to protect it from others.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The deer tried to ____ in the thick bushes to avoid being seen by the approaching hunter.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną (“to hoard”), 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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

"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." — 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:

"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" — 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:

"O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide!" — c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

"A Forest Trail and wild life hides lie 2 miles to the north-east. Blue hares, deer, wild geese, herons and duck can be discreetly observed from the hides." — 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 382, about Tighnabruaich:

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