Word Meanings - CLOAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtik origin and the same word as E. 1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women. 2. That which conceals;

Additional info about word: CLOAK

bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtik origin and the same word as E. 1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women. 2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover. No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South. Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLOAK)

• Cover Hide
• conceal
• cloak
• screen
• secrete
• protect
• meet
• secure
• overspread
• clothe
• shield
• shelter
• cover
• Palliate
• Cloak
• extenuate
• mitigate
• soften
• soothe
• gloze
• Pretence
• Excuse
• pretext
• fabrication
• simulation
• mask
• color
• show
• garb
• plea
• assumption
• make believe
• outside show
• pretension
• Screen Shelter
• defend
• hide
• palliate
• curtain
• harbor
• fence
• ward
• shade

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CLOAK)

• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Eject
• expel
• discard
• discourage
• stifle
• exclude
• banish
• dismiss
• Open
• expose
• surrender
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute
• Loosen
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to CLOAK)

• FENCE MONTH
  the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• FENCER
  One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• DEFENCE
  See DEFENSE
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.