Usually means: Alter appearance to conceal identity.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. disguise: Merriam-Webster
  2. disguise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disguise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disguise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disguise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disguise, disguise: Wordnik
  7. disguise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disguise: Wiktionary
  9. disguise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disguise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disguise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Disguise, disguise: Dictionary.com
  13. disguise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. disguise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Disguise (Motionless in White album), Disguise (album), Disguise (novel), Disguise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Disguise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. disguise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. disguise: Rhymezone
  19. disguise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. disguise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. disguise: FreeDictionary.org
  22. disguise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. disguise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. disguise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disguise: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Disguise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. disguise: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disguise: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
noun:  (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath.
noun:  The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy.
noun:  (archaic) A change of behaviour resulting from intoxication, drunkenness.
verb:  (transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To transform or disfigure, to change the appearance of in general.
verb:  (transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To dress in newfangled or showy clothing, to deck out in new fashions.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To dissemble, to talk or act falsely while concealing one’s thoughts.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

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