Meaning: hide

Illustrative Context

They hid their food from the animal.

Disambiguation

The verb (to) hide (from view), not the noun for an animal skin.

Target Sense

• The most generic transitive verb for hide in the sense of placing an object out of sight, to make it difficult to find.
• The target form is the transitive one, as in the illustrative context, and should be applicable to hiding an object such as a mid-sized fruit (e.g. an apple). Avoid intransitive forms (if different), or forms with additional middle voice or reflexive morphology, i.e. in French the target lexeme is just cacher, not se cacher.
• Enter the most generic term: avoid lexemes with narrower senses of any kind, including particular ways of hiding, e.g. camouflage, screen, bury, cloak.
• The target sense is the literal one, of hiding an object out of sight. Avoid any different lexemes with predominantly figurative senses, such as for ‘hiding’ emotions, thoughts, plans, or misleading in other ways, e.g. dissimulate.
• The default register term. Avoid lexemes specific to other registers, e.g. formal or literary (conceal, secrete) or slang (e.g. French planquer).