CONCEALING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concealing mean? 

• CONCEALING (noun)
  The noun CONCEALING has 1 sense:

1. the activity of keeping something secret

  Familiarity information: CONCEALING used as a noun is very rare.

• CONCEALING (adjective)
  The adjective CONCEALING has 1 sense:

1. covering or hiding

  Familiarity information: CONCEALING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCEALING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of keeping something secret

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

concealing; concealment; hiding

Hypernyms ("concealing" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concealing"):

camouflage; disguise (the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance)

mask (activity that tries to conceal something)

cover; covering; masking; screening (the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it)

cover (a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent))

cover-up (concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public)

burial; burying (concealing something under the ground)

smoke screen; smokescreen (an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure)

stealing; stealth (avoiding detection by moving carefully)

money laundering (concealing the source of illegally gotten money)

Derivation:

conceal (prevent from being seen or discovered)

conceal (hold back; keep from being perceived by others)

• CONCEALING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covering or hiding

Context example:

concealing curtains prevented discovery

Antonym:

revealing (showing or making known)

 Context examples 

Concealing the mad-woman's neighbourhood from you, however, was something like covering a child with a cloak and laying it down near a upas-tree: that demon's vicinage is poisoned, and always was.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And I hope you will not be cruelly concealing any tendency to indisposition.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He drew his sleeve across his face, without any pretence of concealing why; and then cleared his voice.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What was it that my wife was concealing from me?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My plea of concealing the truth she did not think sufficient.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

No difficulty was made on Mrs. Allen's side, and the only difficulty on Catherine's was in concealing the excess of her pleasure.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Concealing it from us! my dear child, do you accuse Willoughby and Marianne of concealment?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I afterwards learned that, knowing my father’s advanced age and unfitness for so long a journey, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As for Jane, her anxiety under this suspense was, of course, more painful than Elizabeth's, but whatever she felt she was desirous of concealing, and between herself and Elizabeth, therefore, the subject was never alluded to.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)