hide
Forms
- present (v1)
- hide
- past (v2)
- hid
- past participle (v3)
- hidden
- present participle
- hiding
- 3rd person singular
- hides
- Plural
- hides
Definitions
1.To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
- The father hid the gift behind him.
- He hides his magazines under the bed.
- The politicians were accused of keeping information hidden from the public.
2.To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.
- You can run, but you can't hide!
- The thieves were found hiding in an abandoned building.
3.To beat with a whip made from hide.
- He ran last week, and he was hided, and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.
1.The skin of an animal.
2.One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.(informal)
- The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of money and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide, as I think he will.
3.(mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
- 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.
4.A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway.
- In the early days of American settlement, hides were built into houses to provide protection from the Indians and to conceal merchandise from the threat of taxation or thievery.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1138
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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Etymology
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”).