Definition of hides

"hides" in the noun sense

1. hide, fell

the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

2. hide, pelt, skin

body covering of a living animal

"hides" in the verb sense

1. hide, conceal

prevent from being seen or discovered

"hide the money"

2. hide, hide out

be or go into hiding keep out of sight, as for protection and safety

"Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding"

"She is hiding out in a cabin in Montana"

3. shroud, enshroud, hide, cover

cover as if with a shroud

"The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"

4. obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide

make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

"a hidden message"

"a veiled threat"

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Quotations for hides

Love hides ugliness. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

The bait hides the hook. [ Proverb ]

Varnishing hides a crack. [ Proverb ]

Behind a frowning providence
God hides a shining face. [ William Cowper ]

God hides Himself behind causes. [ Charles Rollin ]

He bears misery best that hides it most. [ Proverb ]

The future hides in it gladness and sorrow. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who covers faults, at last shame them derides. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world;
The health, the soul, the beauty most divine;
A mask of gold hides all deformities;
Gold is heaven's physic, life's restorative. [ Decker ]

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. [ Pope ]

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate,
All but the page prescribed - their present state. [ Pope ]

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The corn hides itself in the snow as an old man in furs. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. [ Horace Mann ]

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. [ Alexander Smith ]

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world. [ Feltham ]

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. [ Schiller ]

Clouds are the veil behind which the face of day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its beauty. [ Richter ]

He is ungrateful who denies a benefit; he is ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful who does not return it; he, most of all, who has forgotten it. [ Seneca ]

There are few things more singular than the blindness which, in matters of the highest importance to ourselves, often hides the truth that is plain as noon to all other eyes. [ Rev. Dr. Croly ]

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland, odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves. [ Countess of Blessington ]

God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. [ Robert Collyer ]

Nature is sanitive, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. [ Emerson ]

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of. [ Pascal ]

Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]

hides in Scrabble®

The word hides is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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hides in Words With Friends™

The word hides is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words within the letters of hides

2 letter words in hides (5 words)

3 letter words in hides (7 words)

4 letter words in hides (6 words)

5 letter words in hides (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence hides

Words that start with hides (1 word)

Words with hides in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving hides

Shorter words in hides

hi hid hide

id hid hide

id ide hide

id ide ides

Longer words containing hides

chides rachides

cowhides

horsehides

methides

oxhides

rehides

sulphides bisulphides

sulphides disulphides

sulphides hydrosulphides

sulphides oxysulphides

sulphides pentasulphides

sulphides persulphides

sulphides polysulphides

sulphides sesquisulphides

sulphides subsulphides

sulphides trisulphides