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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disguise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading
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Examples
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In Scotland kids go guising (as in disguised) in amazing costumes and have to perform for their treats.
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I have other parts on two seperate USBs, in disguised files so no one can tell what they are without opening at least twenty documents.
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Contrast that to Bush, who is so cavilier about the lives of others that he actually contemplated sending American pilots up in disguised planes to try and trick Saddam into shooting them down so he could start his war.
Think Progress » VIDEO: 8th General Calls For Rumsfeld’s Resignation 2006
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This is where married women weren't allowed to watch, and when one slipped in disguised as a trainer, they made the trainers come naked, too.
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After their transfer and a brief period of observation to verify the underlying diagnosis, patients were killed by gassing with carbon monoxide in disguised shower facilities.
Archive 2003-01-01 2003
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Stalin, although we referred to him in disguised terms.
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Her lover, "Aronce," although he probably may be a little disguised from the English reader by his spelling, is so palpably the again real "Aruns," son of Porsena, that one rather wonders how his identity can have been so long concealed in
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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The Latins obtained the name of Roman citizens; the title disguised a real subjection, since the men who bore it had the obligation of citizens without the rights.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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I answer: It is absurd to introduce -- under whatever term disguised -- into the conception of a thing, which is to be cogitated solely in reference to its possibility, the conception of its existence.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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Instead, VeeMee has gone down the unusual route of making a rhythm-action title disguised as a car game, that looks a little like cult-classic
Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions 2010
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