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Exact Match:

veil

to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces"

Synonyms:

• alibi,
• apology,
• apply to,
• awning,
• bamboo curtain,
• barrier of secrecy,
• beach umbrella,
• becloud,
• befog,
• blackout,
• blanket,
• blind,
• block,
• bosom,
• camouflage,
• canopy,
• censorship,
• classify,
• cloak,
• clothe,
• cloud,
• coat,
• color,
• coloring,
• conceal,
• cope,
• cover,
• cover story,
• cover up,
• cover-up,
• coverage,
• covering,
• covert,
• coverture,
• cowl,
• cowling,
• curtain,
• device,
• disguise,
• dissemble,
• distract attention from,
• drape,
• drapery,
• draw the curtains,
• eclipse,
• enclose,
• ensconce,
• enshroud,
• envelop,
• enwrap,
• excuse,
• facade,
• false front,
• feint,
• file and forget,
• film,
• front,
• gloss,
• gloss over,
• guise,
• handle,
• hanging,
• hide,
• hold out on,
• hood,
• housing,
• hush-up,
• in petto,
• invest,
• iron curtain,
• ironbound security,
• keep,
• keep back,
• keep between us,
• keep buttoned up,
• keep close,
• keep dark,
• keep from,
• keep in ignorance,
• keep mum,
• keep secret,
• keep snug,
• keep under cover,
• keep under wraps,
• lame excuse,
• lay on,
• lay over,
• light shield,
• locus standi,
• make no sign,
• mantilla,
• mantle,
• mask,
• muffle,
• never let on,
• not give away,
• not tell,
• oath of secrecy,
• obduce,
• obfuscate,
• obscure,
• occult,
• official secrecy,
• ostensible motive,
• overlay,
• overshadow,
• overspread,
• pall,
• parasol,
• play dumb,
• poor excuse,
• pretense,
• pretension,
• pretext,
• protestation,
• public motive,
• put on,
• put-off,
• refuge,
• repression,
• screen,
• scum,
• seal of secrecy,
• secrete,
• security,
• semblance,
• shade,
• shader,
• shadow,
• sham,
• shelter,
• shield,
• show,
• shroud,
• shutter,
• slur over,
• smoke screen,
• smothering,
• spread over,
• stalking-horse,
• stifling,
• stratagem,
• subterfuge,
• sunblind,
• sunshade,
• superimpose,
• superpose,
• suppression,
• trick,
• umbrella,
• varnish,
• veil of secrecy,
• veiler,
• veiling,
• vestment,
• whitewash,
• withhold,
• wrap,
• wraps,
• yashmak