hiding Definition

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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hiding¹
noun

1. The state of being hidden or concealed.

Thesaurus: camouflage, concealment, disguise, screening, veiling.
2. Concealment; a secret location.

verb

1. Present participle of hide¹.

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hiding²
noun

1. colloq
A severe beating.
Thesaurus: beating, drubbing, flogging, hammering, licking, spanking, tanning, thrashing, walloping, whaling (US), whipping.

Idiom: be on a hiding to nothing

colloq
To be in a situation in which a favourable outcome is impossible.

Etymology: 19c: from hide².