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hid

/hɪd/

hid is the simple past of hide.

hid is the past participle of hide.

Meaning of hide

Verb (1)

hide (third-person singular simple present hides, present participle hiding, simple past hid, past participle hidden or (archaic) hid)

  1. (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
    • He hides his magazines under the bed.
  2. (intransitive) 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!
    Synonyms:
    go undercover, hide away, hide out, lie low, hole up
    Antonyms:
    reveal, show

Verb (2)

hide (third-person singular simple present hides, present participle hiding, simple past and past participle hided)

  1. To beat with a whip made from hide.
    • He ran last week, and he was hided, and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.1891, Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown, Riding

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Adjective capitalized: HID

HID (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of high-intensity discharge.

Noun capitalized: HID

HID (plural HIDs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of human interface device.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of human-implantable device.

Proper noun capitalized: HID

HID

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Hidalgo: a state of Mexico.

Forms of hid

pluralHIDs

Words formed from hid

Phrases with hid

Words that rhyme with hid

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Questions about hid

What is hid the simple past of?
Hid is the simple past of hide.
What part of speech is hid?
Hid can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hid?
Hid is pronounced /hɪd/.

Words near hid in the dictionary

  1. hickways
  2. hicky
  3. hicotee
  4. hicotees
  5. HICs
  6. hid
  7. hid away
  8. hid behind
  9. hid in plain sight
  10. hid one's light under a bushel
  11. hid out

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