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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disguise \Dis*guise"\ (?; 232), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Disguised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disguising}.] [OE. desguisen, disgisen, degisen, OF. desguisier, F. d['e]guiser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + guise. See {Guise}.]
1. To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner. --Macaulay.
2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.
All God's angels come to us disguised. --Lowell.
3. To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker of five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. --Spectator.
Syn: To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign; pretend; secrete. See {Conceal}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disguised
adjective
1: having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading; "hidden agenda"; "masked threat" [syn: {cloaked}, {masked}]
2: deliberately concealed as if with a veil; "disguised threats"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "disguised": appareled, arrayed, attired, bedecked, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, boozy, breeched, camouflaged, canned, capped, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, concealed, costumed, decked, dight, dressed, drunk, endued, garbed, garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, hidden, hooded, imperceptible, in disguise, incog, incognito, indiscernible, inebriated, insensible, invested, invisible, latent, liveried, mantled, masked, masquerading, muddled, out of sight, pantalooned, pixilated, plastered, raimented, rigged out, robed, secret, shod, shoed, sightless, submerged, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, unapparent, unbeheld, unbeholdable, undiscernible, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unseeable, unseen, unviewed, unwitnessed, vested, vestmented, viewless
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