Usually means: Conceal true motives or feelings.
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  1. dissemble: Merriam-Webster
  2. dissemble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dissemble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dissemble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dissemble: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dissemble, dissemble: Wordnik
  7. dissemble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dissemble: Wiktionary
  9. dissemble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dissemble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dissemble: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dissemble, dissemble: Dictionary.com
  13. dissemble: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dissemble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dissemble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dissemble: Rhymezone
  17. Dissemble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dissemble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. dissemble: FreeDictionary.org
  20. dissemble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dissemble: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. dissemble: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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verb:  (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
verb:  (transitive) To feign, dissimulate.
verb:  (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
verb:  (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.

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