Ensconce vs Conceal - What's the difference?
ensconce | conceal |
To place in a secure environment.
* 1876 , , ch IX,
* '>citation
To settle comfortably.
*
(lb) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
:
*
*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed .
In transitive terms the difference between ensconce and conceal
is that ensconce is to place in a secure environment while conceal is to hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.ensconce
English
Verb
- They found the sharp new heap they were seeking, and ensconced themselves within the protection of three great elms that grew in a bunch within a few feet of the grave.
- Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.
