- [uncountable] the state of being hidden
- in/into hiding We spent months in hiding.
- After the trial, she had to go into hiding for several weeks.
- out of hiding He only came out of hiding ten years after the war was over.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + hiding- go into
- come out of
- in hiding
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- [uncountable] the act of hiding something
- I could understand the hiding of certain military secrets.
- [countable, usually singular] (especially British English, informal) a physical punishment, usually involving being hit hard many times synonym beating
- to give somebody/get a (good) hiding
- (figurative) The team got a hiding in their last game.
Word Originnoun senses 1 and 2 Middle English: from hide ‘conceal’ + -ing.noun sense 3 early 19th cent.: from hide ‘animal skin’ + -ing.
Idioms
See hiding in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryon a hiding to nothing
- (British English, informal) having no chance of success, or not getting much advantage even if you do succeedTopics Difficulty and failurec2
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