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DISSIMULATE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they dissimulate ... he / she / it dissimulates
Past simple: dissimulated
-ing form: dissimulating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hide (feelings) from other people
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "dissimulate" is one way to...):
disguise; mask (make unrecognizable)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
dissimulation (the act of deceiving)
dissimulative (concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive)