Disguise

Verb
1- To change your appearance,sound or taste etc of something, especially in order to hide your appearance:

- She has had a lot of cosmetic surgery in an attempt to disguise her age.
- We disguised our faces before robbing the bank.
- There's no way you can disguise that southern accent.

2- To conceal or cover up the truth ,feelings,opinions or actual character of by a counterfeit form or appearance; misrepresent:

- She tried to disguise her intention.
- He didn't disguise his anger.

Noun
A) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.

- She was wearing a disguise of a blond wig and glasses.
- He has adopted so many disguises her own mother wouldn't recognize him.
- His bizarre disguise drew stares from fellow shoppers.

B) The concealing of one's true intentions or feelings:
- That eye which glances through all disguises.
- His cheerful manner is a disguise that hides the pain.

Collocations

Disguise as
- Well, it may be hard to disguise junk as health food.
- He managed to escape by disguising himself as a woman.
- She disguised herself as a boy.

Disguised as
- He escaped across the border disguised as a priest.
- The extremists entered the building disguised as medical workers.
- A letter bomb disguised as a musical greetings card.
- They got in disguised as security guards.

As a disguise
- He put on a large hat and glasses as a disguise and hoped no one would recognize him.
- I pun on glasses as a disguise.
- He grew beard and mustache as a disguise.

Disguise oneself
- She disguised herself as a man so she could fight on the battlefield.
- The spy disguised himself as a reporter and went into the hall to gather information.
- The journalist disguised himself as a waiter in order to get into the celebrity party.

The act of disguising:
Without disguise
- He spoke without without disguise.
- Rows of small children looked at her without disguise.

In disguise (wearing disguise)
The state of being disguised; masquerade:

- She usually goes out in disguise to avoid being bothered by the public. .
- He was instantly recognizable in any country, in any kind of uniform, even in disguise.
- The woman in the park turned out to be a police officer in disguise.
- The more artistic films are dismissed as pornography in disguise.
The last sentence has the meaning of: To hide what something really is, especially by making it seem better than it is.

Disguise in
- Then he gets into her bed and disguises himself in her clothes to trap the child.
- He was obviously Officer Cecil, poorly disguised in false mustache, tailcoat and spats.
- the most genuine threat to our lives came disguised in the quietest way, when we broke the cardinal rule of touching an unidentified creature.

Disguised by
- Their inadequacy is often disguised by the tax incentives that many governments give to institutional saving.
- Under capitalism, exploitation is disguised by the ideas of equality and freedom.
- She was just cheerfully fat, her obesity partly disguised by the fact that she, too, wore a Mother Hubbard.

Other prepositions
- She glanced sideways with disguise at the Canadian.
- He was wearing a hat and glasses in an absurd attempt at disguise, but he, Fedorov, was not deceived.
- There was no pretense or possibility of disguise with these men as there was with his charter party

Adjective
- He gave the secret information of the club to a disguised rival.
- She was about to marry a disguised man,not her real lover.
- It was a thinly disguised(= only slightly) attack on the President.

Adverbs
- The hijackers were heavily disguised.
- It was a thinly/barely disguised attack on the President.

Thinly disguised if something is thinly disguised etc, someone is pretending it is something else, but you can easily see what it really is:
- He looked at Frank's new car with thinly veiled envy.
- She was cleverly/cunningly disguised as a doctor.

Phrases
In an attempt/effort to disguise something/try to disguise something.
- He made no attempt to disguise his anger.
- he made no effort to disguise his contempt.

A blessing in disguise
something that has a good effect, although at first it seemed that it would be bad.
- Being omitted from the World Cup squad was a blessing in disguise.
- Poor Jonas' death was a blessing in disguise, though one could wish it had happened differently.
- Be positive, this could be a blessing in disguise, use the time gained wisely.

Adopt, Put on, Wear,Use

- I just put on disguise and played normally. play as if nothing has happened.
- OK now for this once be a sneaker on any level get an upgrade, put on a disguise until you get to the character you want to be
- So I put on a disguise, make my journey undercover.
- What disguises might an undercover reporter wear,Would you wear a disguise to your press conference?
- Brian must avoid detection by those around him, and can adopt disguises to fool onlookers
adopt a drastic/multiple disguises.
- she is obliged to adopt a series of elaborate disguises
- Spies had to adopt cunning disguises so that they could pass into enemy territory unnoticed
- The Use of Disguise in Elizabethan Drama.
- Robbers used underwear as disguise.
- The ability of the libertine to use disguise for individual interest and amusement is recognized.

Disguise that/the fact that
- Their healthy image disguises the fact that they are highly processed foods.
- We don't attempt to disguise that we're four fallible people up there playing music.
- There's no disguising the fact that(it is obvious that) business is bad.
- The essential purpose was to disguise the fact that Dennis was an alcoholic.

Disguise beneath
- There was hostility, disguised beneath the surface calm.

Can't/Couldn't
- She couldn’t disguise the fact that she felt uncomfortable.
- He could not disguise that he had had the worst imaginable day for any minister.

Related subjects
To hide sth/sb by changing their appearance,sound