camouflage
verb/ˈkæməflɑːʒ/
/ˈkæməflɑːʒ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they camouflage | /ˈkæməflɑːʒ/ /ˈkæməflɑːʒ/ |
| he / she / it camouflages | /ˈkæməflɑːʒɪz/ /ˈkæməflɑːʒɪz/ |
| past simple camouflaged | /ˈkæməflɑːʒd/ /ˈkæməflɑːʒd/ |
| past participle camouflaged | /ˈkæməflɑːʒd/ /ˈkæməflɑːʒd/ |
| -ing form camouflaging | /ˈkæməflɑːʒɪŋ/ /ˈkæməflɑːʒɪŋ/ |
- camouflage something/yourself (with something) to hide somebody/something/yourself by making them/it/yourself look like the things around, or like something else
- The soldiers camouflaged themselves with leaves.
- The vehicles were all well camouflaged.
- It's a big car, though its size is camouflaged by its beautful flowing lines.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarypreposition- with
- be carefully camouflaged
- be heavily camouflaged
- be well camouflaged
- …
Word OriginFirst World War: from French, from camoufler ‘to disguise’ (originally thieves' slang), from Italian camuffare ‘disguise, deceive’, perhaps by association with French camouflet ‘whiff of smoke in the face’.
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