hiding
/ˈhaɪdɪŋ/
hiding is the present participle and gerund of hide.
Noun (1)
hiding (usually uncountable, plural hidings)
- A state of concealment.
- After the leaked scandalous stories about his personal life, the celebrity remained in hiding for a few weeks.
- A place of concealment.
- Synonyms:
- hiding place
Noun (2)
hiding (countable and uncountable, plural hidings)
Meaning of hide
Verb (1)
hide (third-person singular simple present hides, present participle hiding, simple past hid, past participle hidden or (archaic) hid)
- 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!
Verb (2)
hide (third-person singular simple present hides, present participle hiding, simple past and past participle hided)
- 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
Synonyms of hiding
Forms of hiding
| plural | hidings |
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Origin of hiding
See hide (Etymology 1)
See hide (Etymology 2)
Words formed from hiding
Phrases with hiding
Words that rhyme with hiding
- riding
- confiding
- abiding
- biding
- gliding
- guiding
- paragliding
- sliding
- striding
- backsliding
- bestriding
- betiding
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blindsiding
- briding
- broadsiding
- chiding
- coinciding
- colliding
- coresiding
- deciding
- deriding
- disciding
- dividing
- eliding
- griding
- hagriding
- joyriding
- misguiding
- niding
- nondividing
- outriding
- overriding
- overstriding
- peroxiding
- presiding
- priding
- providing
- redeciding
- redividing
- residing
- siding
- subsiding
- suiciding
Questions about hiding
- What does hiding mean?
- Hiding means a state of concealment.
- What is hiding the present participle and gerund of?
- Hiding is the present participle and gerund of hide.
- What part of speech is hiding?
- Hiding is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hiding?
- Hiding is pronounced /ˈhaɪdɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of hiding?
- The plural of hiding is hidings.
Words near hiding in the dictionary
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