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hide-out

noun

A hiding place:

covert, den, hideaway, lair.

Translations

hide-out

[ˈhaɪdˌaʊt] n → nascondiglio

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(haid) – past tense hid (hid) : past participle hidden (ˈhidn) – verb

to put (a person, thing etc) in a place where it cannot be seen or easily found. I'll hide the children's presents; You hide, and I'll come and look for you; She hid from her father; He tries to hide his feelings.

noun

a small concealed hut etc from which birds etc can be watched, photographed etc.

ˈhidden adjective

(made in such a way as to be) difficult to see or find. a hidden door; a hidden meaning.

hide-and-seek noun

a children's game in which one person searches for other people who have hidden themselves.

ˈhide-out noun

a place where one can hide or is hiding. The police searched for the bandits' hide-out.

ˈhiding noun

He has gone into hiding because he knows the police are looking for him; Is he still in hiding?; The burglar came out of hiding when the police car drove off.

ˈhiding-place noun

a place where a person or thing can be or is hidden. We'll have to find a safe hiding-place for our jewels.

References in periodicals archive ?

Bhong Police Station SHO Naveed Wahla and his team conducted a raid at a hide-out in Kacha area and nabbed six bandits while arms and ammunition were also seized from their possession.

Hafizabad police apprehend five criminals

Defense ministry also said a number of insurgent's weapons and their hide-out has been destroyed in these operations.

Afghanistan: 67 Insurgents Killed in ANDSF, AAF Operations

Sadiqabad ASP Hafeezur Rehman said Bhong Police Station SHO Naveed Wahla and his team conducted a raid at a hide-out in Kacha area and nabbed six bandits while arms and ammunition were also seized from their possession.

Six wanted bandits nabbed from Kacha area

But Al Qassimi said forces were still hunting the rebel theologian, who managed on Aug 4 to flee his hide-out in the Hakami mountain in the area of Marran in Saada, some 250km north of capital Sanaa.

YEMEN - Aug 6 - Army Hunts For Al Houthi

ANTI-TALIBAN leaders last night called on America to stop blitzing Osama bin Laden's suspected mountain hide-out.

Stop bombing until you can get it right; US urged to halt attacks as 100 die

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani forces pounded militants in tribal areas yesterday, after vowing an all-out assault on a Taleban chief in the lawless Afghan border region known to be an Al-Qaeda and rebel hide-out.

Pak planes pound Taleban hide-outs

The latest American casualties in the five-month-old war came on Monday during intense fighting at the opponents' snowy eastern Afghanistan mountain hide-out as two twinrotor troop-carrying Chinook helicopters came under attack.

US death toll rises in Afghan fighting

Khaqzar believes the hide-out suffered little substantial damage because of the warren of caves dug deep within a mountain.

Strategy aims to keep bin Laden from fleeing to mountains

Officials say that fighting in Bajaur, a rumored hide-out of Osama Bin Laden, and Swat have left nearly 500 militants dead in August alone.

Pak bombing kills 40 militants in Swat

The police had raided many places for their arrest, however, the accused used to shift their hide-outs.

Police encounters: three killed, four arrested in injured condition

Replying to a question, he said Pakistan had eradicated menace of terrorism and destroyed hide-outs of terrorists and militants.

Afghan war cannot be fought on Pakistan's soil: Qayyum

Targeting PKK hide-outs is an important measure but an intellectual battle to defeat this flawed ideology will greatly help in the long run.

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