verb, noun
verb [VN]
1 ~ sb (as sb/sth) to change your appearance so that people cannot recognize you:
The hijackers were heavily disguised. * She disguised herself as a boy. * They got in disguised as security guards.
2 to hide sth or change it, so that it cannot be recognized:
She made no attempt to disguise her surprise. * It was a thinly disguised attack on the President. * She couldn't disguise the fact that she felt uncomfortable. * He tried to disguise his accent.
Part of speech: noun
1 [C,U] a thing that you wear or use to change your appearance so that people do not recognize you:
She wore glasses and a wig as a disguise. * The star travelled in disguise (= wearing a disguise). * (figurative) A vote for the Liberal Democrats is just a Labour vote in disguise.
2 [U] the art of changing your appearance so that people do not recognize you:
He is a master of disguise.
IDIOMS see BLESSING
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for disguise is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is disguise a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, disguise is tagged as noun.
Does disguise appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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