Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
camouflage .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word camouflaging.
Examples
-
In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
-
In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
-
In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
-
In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
-
In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
-
In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
-
In early 2009, Obama and his top economic aides faced a fateful choice: either do an honest accounting of the nation's big insolvent banks, like Citigroup; or keep propping them up and collude with the banks in camouflaging just how bad things were -- and still are.
Robert Kuttner: Obama Calls the Question on Geithner Robert Kuttner 2010
-
This tendency – which might be called a type of impersonation, a kind of camouflaging of the writer's authority and hence his responsibility – can be seen throughout Ishiguro's work, and goes hand in hand with his most persistent themes: the fear of disorganisation and abandonment; the psychical aftermath of childhood; and the relationship between the institutional and the personal through which these themes are frequently dramatised.
-
The last thing she had done, before they had slipped away from the Keeper™s apartment the night before, was work a “masking” spell, a kind of camouflaging of her presence.
The Irda Baker, Linda P. 1995
-
Natives of India are extraordinarily good at "camouflaging" improvised surroundings, for they have been used to doing it for centuries.
Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
-
The neurodivergent tactic of masking (also known as camouflaging) has recently become better recognised, especially amongst women and girls (Attwood, 2007; Hendrickx, 2015; Egeskov, 2019).
Olfactory Overload: Knowing the Neurodivergent Nose Eva Surawy-Stepney 2023
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.