masquerade
verb/ˌmæskəˈreɪd/, /ˌmɑːskəˈreɪd/
/ˌmæskəˈreɪd/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they masquerade | /ˌmæskəˈreɪd/, /ˌmɑːskəˈreɪd/ /ˌmæskəˈreɪd/ |
| he / she / it masquerades | /ˌmæskəˈreɪdz/, /ˌmɑːskəˈreɪdz/ /ˌmæskəˈreɪdz/ |
| past simple masqueraded | /ˌmæskəˈreɪdɪd/, /ˌmɑːskəˈreɪdɪd/ /ˌmæskəˈreɪdɪd/ |
| past participle masqueraded | /ˌmæskəˈreɪdɪd/, /ˌmɑːskəˈreɪdɪd/ /ˌmæskəˈreɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form masquerading | /ˌmæskəˈreɪdɪŋ/, /ˌmɑːskəˈreɪdɪŋ/ /ˌmæskəˈreɪdɪŋ/ |
- masquerade as something to pretend to be something that you are not
- commercial advertisers masquerading as private individuals
- (figurative) The local paper is full of gossip masquerading as news.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French mascarade, from Italian mascherata, from maschera ‘mask’.Definitions on the go
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