as in concealed
to keep secret or shut off from view
she dropped her head in shame and curtained her face with her hair
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curtained
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Beyond that, the county has concealed most legal bills from the process — fees paid to outside lawyers and investigators who built the case against Corpus and looked into her counter-accusations — citing attorney-client privilege.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2026 -
The pair began to exchange words early in the second half, cracking the type of crooked smiles that hardly concealed the competitiveness driving both players to chirp and ridicule and needle one another on both ends of the court.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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The bill of his ball cap obscured his gaze.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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Instead, first-time director Fergus Campbell drops us directly into Cleo’s world — no parents, no rules and every authority figure is obscured, like the unintelligible adults in Peanuts cartoons.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Mar. 2026
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Thompson and Allen covered the net in all three games.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Superstorm Sandy, which in 2012 flooded New York City and neighbors, had tropical storm-force winds that covered an area nearly one-fifth the area of the contiguous United States.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
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Meow Wolf’s sixth permanent exhibition comes on the heels of the immersive art creator’s 52,000-square-foot psychedelic art installation in Las Vegas, which was disguised as a dystopian grocery store called Omega Mart and promptly went viral on TikTok.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
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That lightning in a bottle disguised in the form of ping-pong balls led to the selection of Cooper Flagg, who has exceeded expectations as one of the NBA’s best rookies in the last two decades.—
Mike Curtis,
Dallas Morning News,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Curtained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curtained. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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