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  • 21hiding-place — n hideaway, hideout, lair, den, hole, hide, nest, cache, cover, shelter, refuge, haven, sanctuary, retreat, cloister …

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  • 22place of concealment — index cache (hiding place) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 23place of immunity — index asylum (hiding place) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 24place of refuge — index asylum (hiding place), home (domicile), shelter (protection) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 25hiding — hid·ing || haɪdɪŋ n. hiding place; concealment, act of hiding something; act of hiding oneself; lashing, flogging haɪd n. skin of an animal; person s skin (Slang); concealed place, hiding place; measure of land (in Old English times) v.… …

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  • 26hiding — 1. n. colloq. a thrashing. Phrases and idioms: on a hiding to nothing in a position from which there can be no successful outcome. Etymology: HIDE(2) + ING(1) 2. n. 1 the act or an instance of hiding. 2 the state of remaining hidden (go into… …

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  • 27hiding — {{11}}hiding (1) concealment, early 13c., from prp. of HIDE (Cf. hide) (v.1). Hiding place is from mid 15c.; an O.E. word for this was hydels. {{12}}hiding (2) a flogging, 1809, from HIDE (Cf. hide) (n.1 …

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  • 28hiding — Synonyms and related words: Waterloo, asylum, beating, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, bolt hole, burial, burying, cache, cementwork, cloaking, clouding, coating, collapse, concealedness, concealing, concealment, conquering, conquest, corner …

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  • 29hiding — n 1. concealment, secretion, hiding away; covering, screening, veiling, masking, shielding; clouding, obscuring. 2. hideaway, hiding place, hideout. See hideaway(def.1) …

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  • 30hiding — hiding1 [hīd′iŋ] n. [ME huydinge] 1. a) the act of one that hides b) the condition of being hidden: usually in the phrase in hiding 2. a place to hide hiding2 [hīd′iŋ] n …

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