Undercover vs Disguised - What's the difference?
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Performed or happening in secret.
Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.
(disguise)
Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.
(figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
The act of disguising, notably as a ploy
To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
* Macaulay
To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
(archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
* Spectator
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)Synonyms
* clandestine * See alsodisguised
English
Verb
(head)disguise
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''That cape and mask complete his disguise .
- ''Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
Synonyms
* camouflage * guise * mask * pretenseVerb
- Spies often disguise themselves.
- Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
- He disguised his true intentions.
- 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.