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hid away

hid away is the simple past of hide away.

Meaning of hide away

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To stash or store something in a secret location.
    • ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To hide, to be hidden.

Questions about hid away

What is hid away the simple past of?
Hid away is the simple past of hide away.

Words near hid away in the dictionary

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

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