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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disguise \Dis*guise"\ (?; 232), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disguised};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Disguising}.] [OE. desguisen, disgisen,
     degisen, OF. desguisier, F. d['e]guiser; pref. des- (L. dis-)
     + guise. See {Guise}.]
     1. To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to
        conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or


        deceive.
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              Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false
        show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's
        sentiments, character, or intentions.
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              All God's angels come to us disguised. --Lowell.
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     3. To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
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              I have just left the right worshipful, and his
              myrmidons, about a sneaker of five gallons; the
              whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I
              gave them the ship.                   --Spectator.
  
     Syn: To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign;
          pretend; secrete. See {Conceal}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disguised
       adj 1: having its true character concealed with the intent of
              misleading; "hidden agenda"; "masked threat" [syn: {cloaked},
               {masked}]
       2: deliberately concealed as if with a veil; "disguised
          threats"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "disguised":
     appareled, arrayed, attired, bedecked, behind the curtain,
     behind the scenes, boozy, breeched, camouflaged, canned, capped,
     chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, concealed, costumed,
     decked, dight, dressed, drunk, endued, garbed, garmented, gowned,
     habilimented, habited, hidden, hooded, imperceptible, in disguise,
     incog, incognito, indiscernible, inebriated, insensible, invested,
     invisible, latent, liveried, mantled, masked, masquerading,
     muddled, out of sight, pantalooned, pixilated, plastered,
     raimented, rigged out, robed, secret, shod, shoed, sightless,
     submerged, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, unapparent,
     unbeheld, unbeholdable, undiscernible, unnoticed, unobserved,
     unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unseeable, unseen,
     unviewed, unwitnessed, vested, vestmented, viewless
  
  

















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