Synonyms for cloak
kloʊkcloak

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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

   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

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

1. cloak

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Covering

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. camouflage

   a thing that hides or covers sb/sth

   they left under the cloak of darkness

   Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cloaknoun

   Synonyms:
   mantle

2. cloaknoun

   Synonyms:
   mask, veil, cover, blind

3. cloakverb

   Synonyms:
   mask, hide, veil, cover

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cloaknoun

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

2. cloakverb

   Synonyms:
   conceal, mask, hide, veil, disguise

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "cloak":

   cape, coat, obscuration, mantle, tablecloth, guise, tux, robe, veil, pretext

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1. Troy Sanders:

   We cloak it in metaphor -- instead of painting a very literal picture of the person sick in bed we have broader brush strokes and try to create some kind of fantastical environment that mimics that particular situation and within that fantastical environment you can change the circumstance and make them something more triumphant. if you are good friends someone, and you are with one another and have a very strong relationship I think it’s a wonderful and healthy thing to do to be supportive and be physically present and again turning all these emotions into something productive. Turning this darkness into something bright and positive or at least attempting to.

2. 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.

3. William Proxmire:

   Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

4. Victor Hugo:

   I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

5. Alamos CEO John McCluskey:

   It is a very cynical thing to say, but I believe that this whole attack is essentially just an environmental cloak that is being put over what is really a deep political agenda, what I've never experienced in the past is where there has been very deliberate misinformation about this project that is being published in an effort to get very rapidly a very emotive social media response.