Collocations for "hide"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "hide" in context.
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hide
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- hide in the [bushes, corner, shadows]
- hid in the [wardrobe, closet, basement]
- hide behind [a mask, your hands, a tree, a desk]
- run and hide
- hide in plain [view, sight]
- hide (out) from [the police, your parents]
- you can't hide (from)
- hide out in [a warehouse, under a bridge, an abandoned house]
- hid his [keys, cigarettes]
- hide your [embarrassment, shyness, anger, emotions]
- (couldn't) hide my [tears, face, disappointment]
- hide their true [feelings,colors, identity]
- hid it [in, inside, behind]
- hid it (from us) for [years, a long time]
- hide the [details, information, truth] from
- hide away [money, sweets, alcohol]
- hid them away [so that, from, in]
- the [sun, view] was hidden by the [clouds, trees]
- [raw, cow, deer, animal] hide
- [tan, stretch] (a) hide
- I'll tan your hide!
- (tried to) save his own hide
- a bird hide
- [observe, watch] them from the hide
- from inside the hide
- a hide jacket
'hide' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
aging
- amusement
- beard
- blush
- bomb
- boner
- cash
- cleavage
- column
- cow
- crime
- depot
- disguise
- distort
- document
- dodge
- duck
- elk
- embarrassed
- emotion
- excitement
- facade
- fake
- felony
- flee
- flesh
- forehead
- freckle
- fudge
- grass
- grin
- hurt
- jargon
- limp
- makeup
- mask
- mattress
- misuse
- nowhere
- password
- pig
- resentment
- run
- sausage
- scarf
- scowl
- somewhere
- tan
- tanned
- tights