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Verb
/diˈsembəl/,
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dissembles, 3rd person singular present; dissembled, past participle; dissembled, past tense; dissembling, present participle;
  1. Conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs
    • - an honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble
  2. Disguise or conceal (a feeling or intention)
    • - she smiled, dissembling her true emotion
  1. feign: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
  2. hide under a false appearance; "He masked his disappointment"
  3. behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"
  4. (dissembling) pretense: pretending with intention to deceive
  5. (dissembling) deception: the act of deceiving
  6. A lie (also called prevarication, falsehood) is a known untruth expressed as truth.
  7. To disguise or conceal something; to feign; To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice; To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings
  8. (DISSEMBLED) [Josh.7:11; Jer.42:20; Gal.2:13] - DISSEMBLERS - [Ps.26:4] - DISSEMBLETH - [Prov.26:24] - DISSIMULATION - [Rom12:9; Gal.2:13] - a hiding under a false appearance; false pretension; hipocrisy. ...
  9. (Dissembling) "Dissemble" is a polite term for lying, though some might consider it to refer to being merely misleading. It is most commonly considered to be an euphemism for lying.
  10. (v.) to conceal, fake (Not wanting to appear heartlessly greedy, she dissembled and hid her intention to sell her ailing father’s stamp collection.)
  11. means "to mislead or deceive", as to dissemble about disassembling the bicycle.
  12. (v) - to pretend, to disguise, to mislead
  13. dis·sem·ble (dî-sčmąbel) verb dis·sem·bled, dis·sem·bling, dis·sem·bles verb, transitive 1. To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance. 2. To make a false show of; feign. verb, intransitive To disguise or conceal one's real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance. ...
  14. speak to hide something