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Undercover vs Disguised - What's the difference?

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As an adjective undercover

is performed or happening in secret.

As a noun undercover

is a person who works undercover.

As a verb disguised is

past tense of disguise.

undercover

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Performed or happening in secret.
  • Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.
  • Synonyms

    * clandestine * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who works .
  • disguised

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disguise)

  • disguise

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.
  • ''That cape and mask complete his disguise .
  • (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
  • The act of disguising, notably as a ploy
  • ''Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.

    Synonyms

    * camouflage * guise * mask * pretense

    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.

    Synonyms

    * cloak * mask * hide

    Derived terms

    * disguisedly * disguisement * disguiser