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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
hide away en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To stash or store something in a secret location.
You gotta take it hide it away / I′ve been told that it's much better / When you′re growing old, taking life easy / But you have to know where your life will go
1979, Cheryl Lynn, “Hide It Away”, in In Love:‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
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(intransitive) To hide, to be hidden.
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