IN HIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in hiding mean? 

• IN HIDING (adverb)
  The adverb IN HIDING has 1 sense:

1. quietly in concealment

  Familiarity information: IN HIDING used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN HIDING (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Quietly in concealment

Synonyms:

doggo; in hiding; out of sight

Context example:

he lay doggo

 Context examples 

He's been in hiding about here, this week or over.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“He is in hiding somewhere, for he knew well, black paynim as he is, that our horses' four legs could outstrip his two.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I made up my mind that the fellow was in hiding in the house.

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

He remarked the pregnant silence of the forest. The bird life had flitted. The squirrels were in hiding.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Her presence there confirmed me in my opinion that he was in hiding at Cliffe Royal, and I dropped from your curricle and followed her at once, in order to lay the matter before her, and explain how very necessary it was that Lord Avon should see me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The chance of my overhearing a story told by young Mr. Stone here, which showed me that some one was using the secret chambers of Cliffe Royal, convinced me that Lord Avon was in hiding there, and I lost no time in seeking him out and offering to do him all the justice in my power.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)