Verb

To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.

Spies often disguise themselves.

* Macaulay

Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.

To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.

He disguised his true intentions.

(archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

* Spectator

I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.

Verb

(dodg)

To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.

He dodged traffic crossing the street.

(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.

The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.

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(archaic) To go hither and thither.

(photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).

To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.

* Coleridge

A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.