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noun

plural of camouflage
as in costumes
clothing put on to hide one's true identity or imitate someone or something else the soldiers must wear protective jungle camouflage while on patrol

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verb

present tense third-person singular of camouflage
as in disguises
to change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity camouflaged the military camp as a native village

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Recent Examples of camouflages
Verb
This one, in particular, has a body-skimming fit that’s sleek enough to tuck into jeans or skirts, plus a nice ribbed design that camouflages bra lines. — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 12 Oct. 2026 The silky, buildable formula camouflages all things acne scars, dark circles, and other blemishes without looking thick or cakey. — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 8 Aug. 2026 Olivia Rodrigo knows the true magic of New York City lies in the way its pace camouflages public crash outs. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026 How an octopus camouflages itself was also a topic of discussion for Ritva. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for camouflages
  1. costumes
  2. disguises
  3. masks
  4. conceals
  5. hides
Noun
  • For Alex, this led to a decades-long collaboration, designing sets and costumes for the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
  • However, her annual 31 days of churning out Halloween costumes appears to have come to an end.
    — Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of costumes
Verb
  • With a virtual private network, your requests are pushed through an anonymized server in a different location, which disguises your identifying information.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026
  • L’Oréal Paris’ True Match Radiant Serum Concealer checks both boxes, delivering medium coverage that disguises dark circles, redness, blemishes, and discoloration without looking heavy.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of disguises
Noun
  • Police fired tear gas and water cannons to push back people wearing hoods and masks and throwing fireworks, paving stones and other objects at officers in the Place de la République, northeast of the Paris city center.
    — SYLVIE CORBET, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • In the southern port city of Marseille, some protesters briefly forced their way into the lobby of City Hall and a group of people wearing hoods and masks damaged a police station.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of masks
Verb
  • But the tragedy conceals something nobody knows, and the falsehoods about Jung-hyun keep growing.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The three-word message conceals the depth of a man worthy of dissection.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of conceals
Verb
  • In an indirect prompt injection, an attacker hides instructions in content an AI agent will come across while doing a task—a web page or a forum post, for instance—hoping to hijack the agent.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In regulated work, the gap between a miss and a false certainty is enormous, and a single accuracy number hides it.
    — Murali Rajendran, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
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“Camouflages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camouflages. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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