disguise
US: /dɪsˈɡaɪz/
UK: /dɪsɡˈaɪz/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
disguise /dis'gaiz/- danh từ
- sự trá hình, sự cải trang
- quần áo cải trang
- sự giá trị; sự nguỵ trang; bề ngoài lừa dối
- sự che giấu, sự che đậy
- a blessing in disguise
- (xem) blessing
- ngoại động từ
- trá hình, cải trang
- to disguise onself as...: cải trang là...
- nguỵ trang (sự việc gì dưới một hình thức lừa dối)
- che giấu, che đậy
- to disguise one's intention: che đậy ý định của mình
- to be disguissed with liquour
- (xem) liquour
- trá hình, cải trang
Advanced English dictionary
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.
+ 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
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 camouflage, cover up, conceal, hide, mask:
The van was disguised as a hay wagon.
2 misrepresent, falsify, counterfeit, fake, deceive:
They have disguised the true profits to avoid paying taxes.
n.
3 guise, identity, cover-up, camouflage, appearance, semblance, form, outfit, costume:
She appeared in the disguise of a policewoman.
4 pretence, deception, dissimulation, façade, semblance, Colloq front:
Disguise is seldom resorted to by spies these days.
Collocation
VERB + DISGUISE
adopt, put on, wear
She adopted an elaborate disguise to help her pass through the town unrecognized.
| see through
We all saw through his disguise immediately.
PREP.
in ~
The star travelled in disguise.
ADV.
cleverly, cunningly
She was cleverly disguised as a policewoman.
VERB + DISGUISE
cannot/could not | try to
PREP.
from
You cannot disguise what you are doing from your family.
PHRASES
an attempt to disguise sth
He made no attempt to disguise his liking for her.
| heavily disguised
speaking in a heavily disguised voice
| barely/thinly disguised
In her speech she made several thinly disguised attacks on the president.
Concise dictionary
disguises|disguised|disguisingdɪs'gaɪznoun
+an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something
+any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity
+the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
verb
+make unrecognizable
