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nascondere — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bury verb To place a body in the ground, typically as part of a funeral.
  • conceal verb To hide something from sight or keep it secret from others.
  • cover verb To place something over another thing to protect, conceal, or shield it.
  • disguise noun Clothing, makeup, or other means used to hide one's identity or look like someone else.
  • feign verb To pretend to feel or have something that isn't real.
  • hide verb To put something, or oneself, somewhere out of sight or hard to find.
  • hood noun A loose covering for the head, often part of a jacket or coat.
  • obscure adjective Not well known.
  • smother verb To cover something so completely that it cannot get air, cutting off its breathing or, for a fire, its oxygen.

Senses

nascondere is used for these senses in English:

  • bury (often, figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
  • conceal (transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
  • disguise (transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
  • feign To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
  • feign To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
  • hide (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
  • hide (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.
  • hood (transitive) To cover (something) with a hood.

bury — full definition

  1. verb To place a body in the ground, typically as part of a funeral.
  2. verb To put something in the ground and cover it over.
  3. verb To hide or suppress a feeling, memory, or fact.
  4. verb To put an end to something, such as a disagreement.

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