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Added 1 October 2026

hide

/haɪd/ verb

In Latin: cēlō, occulō, abscondō Wiktionary

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To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
He hides his magazines under the bed.
To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.
You can run, but you can't hide!

noun

The skin of an animal.
The human skin.
One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
to save his own hide

verb

To beat with a whip made from hide.

noun

A unit of land and tax assessment of varying size, originally as intended to support one household with dependents. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

Origin

From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną (“to hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). The verb was originally weak. In the King James Version of the Bible (1611), both hid and hidden are used for the past participle. Cognates Cognate with Dutch huiden, Low German (ver)hüden, (ver)hüen (“to hide, cover, conceal”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin custōs, Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to conceal”), Sanskrit कुहरम् (kuharam, “cave”). Related to hut and sky.

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