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hide¹
verb hid, hidden, hiding

1. To conceal someone or something from sight; to keep something secret.

Thesaurus: conceal, bury, camouflage, disguise, mask, shelter, shroud, cloak, stash, withhold; Antonym: display, reveal, show.
intr
2. To conceal oneself; to go into or stay in concealment.
3. To make something difficult to view; to obscure.

Example: trees hiding the house

noun

1. A concealed shelter used for observing birds and wild animals.

Derivative: hidden
adj

See also hiding¹.
Thesaurus: concealed, veiled, latent, obscure, dark, secret, covert, clandestine, surreptitious, ulterior; Antonym: apparent, obvious, open.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hydan.

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hide²
noun

1. The skin of an animal, especially a large one, either raw or treated.

Thesaurus: pelt, skin, fleece, husk, epidermis, rind, coat, leather.
2. colloq
The human skin.

Idiom: not hide nor hair of someone or something (neither hide nor hair of someone or something)

Not the slightest trace of them or it.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hyd.