Antonyms for cloak
kloʊkcloak

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1. cloak

   Hide is the general term, including all the rest, signifying to put out of sight or beyond ready observation or approach; a thing may be hidden by intention, by accident, or by the imperfection of the faculties of the one from whom it is hidden; in their games, children hide the slipper, or hide themselves from each other; a man unconsciously hides a picture from another by standing before it, or hides a thing from himself by laying something else over it. Even an unconscious object may hide another; as, a cloud hides the sun, or a building hides some part of the prospect by intervening between it and the observer's position. As an act of persons, to conceal is always intentional; one may hide his face in anger, grief, or abstraction; he conceals his face when he fears recognition. A house is hidden by foliage; the bird's nest is artfully concealed. Secrete is a stronger word than conceal, and is used chiefly of such material objects as may be separated from the person, or from their ordinary surroundings, and put in unlooked-for places; a man conceals a scar on his face, but does not secrete it; a thief secretes stolen goods; an officer may also be said to secrete himself to watch the thief. A thing is covered by putting something over or around it, whether by accident or design; it is screened by putting something before it, always with some purpose of protection from observation, inconvenience, attack, censure, etc. In the figurative use, a person may hide honorable feelings; he conceals an evil or hostile intent. Anything which is effectually covered and hidden under any mass or accumulation is buried. Money is buried in the ground; a body is buried in the sea; a paper is buried under other documents. Whatever is buried is hidden or concealed; but there are many ways of hiding or concealing a thing without burying it. So a person may be covered with wraps, and not buried under them. Bury may be used of any object, entomb and inter only of a dead body. Figuratively, one may be said to be buried in business, in study, etc. Compare IMMERSE; PALLIATE.

   Antonyms:
   admit, advertise, avow, betray, confess, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, exhibit, exhume, expose, lay bare, lay open, make known, reveal, manifest, promulgate, publish, raise, show, tell, uncover, unmask, unveil

   Synonyms:
   bury, conceal, cover, disguise, dissemble, entomb, hide, inter, mask, overwhelm, screen, secrete, suppress, veil

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. cloak

   Antonyms:
   exhibit, propound, promulge, portray, aggravate, expose, demonstrate, reveal

   Synonyms:
   conceal, disguise, mask, veil, hide, cover, palliate, screen, mitigate, extenuate

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Covering

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. cloaknoun

   anything that covers or conceals

2. cloakverb

   a loose outer garment

3. dissemble, cloak, maskverb

   hide under a false appearance

   "He masked his disappointment"

   Synonyms:
   act, feign, affect, pretend, dissemble, disguise, drape, block out, sham, robe, mask, clothe

4. clothe, cloak, drape, robeverb

   cover as if with clothing

   "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees"

   Synonyms:
   tog, robe, garment, adorn, apparel, dissemble, clothe, invest, mask, vest, drape, habilitate, garb, dress, fit out, enclothe, raiment

5. cloakverb

   cover with or as if with a cloak

   "cloaked monks"

   Synonyms:
   drape, dissemble, robe, mask, clothe

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1. cloaknoun

   Synonyms:
   mantle, coat, capuchin, dolman, palladium, pelisse, pretext, blind, mask

2. cloakverb

   Synonyms:
   conceal, mask, hide, veil, disguise

How to use cloak in a sentence?

1. Bernard Mandeville:

   Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

2. The Rev. Joseph Lowery:

   We had been through sit-ins and kneel-ins where we had been beat up and locked up and cussed out and locked out, it was a milestone, a watershed. It helped America take off the cloak of official segregation.

3. Sally Thompson:

   In Burma, everything was cloak and dagger, you didn't leave a paper trail, for your own protection. You didn't talk about things openly, you didn't share information because you couldn't trust anybody.

4. Curt Viebranz:

   While they may not have removed the uniform, the theory was to make sure that nobody was openly showing any of their uniform, so they may have come, changed, or they may have put on a cloak that covered all of their insignias and their battle uniform.

5. New York:

   No one has explained where they’re going and who they are, the Biden administration is systematically spreading the southern border crisis to communities all around the country, often shrouded in secrecy and under the cloak of darkness.

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