hide
To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
Verb 3 meanings
To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
“He hides his magazines under the bed.”
To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.
“You can run, but you can't hide!”
To beat with a whip made from hide.
Noun 4 meanings
The skin of an animal.
One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
“to save his own hide”
(mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them.
A secret room for hiding oneself or valuables; a hideaway.
Etymology
From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną (“to hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
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HIDE at a glance
HIDE has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (H 4 + I 1 + D 2 + E 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,734 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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