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Definition of hide : 1. A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres.
2. An abode or dwelling.
3. The human skin; - so called in contempt.
4. The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; - generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.
5. To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
6. To flog; to whip.
7. To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation.
8. To remove from danger; to shelter.
9. To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.

Synonyms:

obnubilate, turn down, entomb, blur, continue, not give a hoot/two hoots, treat, suppress, peel, keep your mouth shut, plow, spurn, tuck away, keep your own counsel, wrap up, insure, hatch, haze over, keep mum, crocodile, fur, dissemble, shroud, overcloud, repress, submerge, show, pass over, compensate, keep back, store away, cross, occult, someone couldn't care less, dismiss, keep something to yourself, it's all the same to someone, calfskin, handle, goatskin, master, hide out, cutis, tuck, encompass, cover up, integument, bedim, can take something or leave it, manage, obstruct, bottle up, efface, go underground, overlay, incubate, obliterate, hold back, close your mind to something, pigskin, cut across, cowhide, garage, get across, shoot down, not breathe a word, keep quiet about something, put away, extend, keep someone guessing, lie low, not hear of it, wipe out, get over, mist, put your foot down, jacket, becloud, confuse, report, not give/care a damn (about), befog, deal with, cloud, not give a fig about/for something, shut off, comprehend, trample something/someone underfoot, blot out, ensconce, track, fog, inter, look out for yourself/number one, not at all, overwhelm, embrace, coat, secrete, no indication, deal, kill, ignore, deceive yourself, fell, block, cache, chamois, kid, cut through, stash, traverse, breed, felled seam, spread over, overcompensate, tegument, buckskin, underwrite, address, deerskin, stow, push aside, slip, brood, hold in, nothing, plant

evaporate, sink, depart, fade, flee, dissolve, vanish, evanesce, melt, fly, go, disappear

cloak, obscure, blind, conceal, disguise, camouflage, screen, censor, mask, enshroud, hush, bury

harbor, protect

curtain, cover, veil, shade

pelt, leather, rind, skin, epidermis, membrane, dermis, cuticle

Usage examples:

• May I hide in the old way and tell my story? - "The Black Robe", Wilkie Collins.
• And I can't make 'em understand that I only want to run away and hide myself where no one will see me. - "The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys", Richard Harding Davis.
• Now you are playing hide and seek with me. - "Melbourne House", Elizabeth Wetherell.