v. 1
To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
I've got nothing to hide.
v. 2
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!
v. 3
To beat with a whip made from hide.
n. 1
The skin of an animal.

Related words

Word family: hide-and-go-seek hide-and-seek hideaway hideless
Phrases: hide the sausage tan someone's hide hide out chap someone's hide have someone's hide hide away hide and coop hide the salami
Is a kind of: barony
Other spellings: hyde

Forms

Plural: hides → skins, pelts, beats, whips…
Past participle: hided
e.g. hided → concealed, disguised, veiled, buried…

Choose the right word

Hide or Hides?

Even an unconscious object may hide another; as, a cloud hides the sun, or a building hides some part of the prospect by intervening between it and the observer's position.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

bury Gray squirrels bury nuts, but red squirrels don't.
disguise Your affection was just a transaction in disguise.
veil Algerians veil their wives but deceive them too.
conceal Sami wanted to conceal the crime he had committed.
shelter Tom volunteers at a homeless shelter twice a week.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
hide		rising
bury		rising
disguise		rising
veil		rising
conceal		rising
shelter		steady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters: beat¹, skin¹, fell¹, mask¹, whip¹, bury², veil¹, slur¹, lurk¹, pelt¹, flog¹
5 letters: cover², inter², cloak¹, cache¹, skulk¹
6 letters: screen¹, occult², shroud¹, burrow², entomb²
7 letters: shelter², obscure², eclipse², conceal², smother², secrete², envelop³
8 letters: disguise², suppress², enshroud², ensconce², carucate
9 letters: dissemble³
10 letters: obliterate⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bury² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: cacher
Italiano: nascondere
Español: esconder
Deutsch: verstecken
Català: amagar