- Concealment - cover up scandal - Watery house paint - Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something,
as a wash for making the skin fair. - A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and
water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of
lime. - To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten
with whitewash. - To make white; to give a fair external appearance to;
to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt)
from obligation to pay debts.
- Concealment - The act of suppressing, or the state of being
suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or
tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the
like. - Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion;
as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which
signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without
expulsion. - Omission; as, the suppression of a word.
- Concealment - Concealment, mystery - The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements
were detected in spite of their secrecy. - That which is concealed; a secret. - Seclusion; privacy; retirement. - The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret;
forbearance of disclosure or discovery.