DISSEMBLE
(pronounced dih-sem-bul)
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verb
Definition
to conceal or disguise under a false appearance; to conceal facts or ones true motives, feelings, nature, etc. under a pretense. |
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affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, cover up, dissimulate, double-talk, doublespeak, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, four-flush, hide, let on, make like, mask, pass, play possum, pussyfoot, put on a false front, put on a front, put on an act, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, sham*, shroud, shuck and jive, signify, simulate, stonewall, whitewash |
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dissemble means to conceal, to give a false appearance; disassemble means to take apart |
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late Middle English: alteration (suggested by semblance) of obsolete dissimule, via Old F
rench from Latin dissimulare 'disguise, conceal'