disguisenoun/dɪsˈɡaɪz/

• 1

  Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.

  • A cape and moustache completed his disguise.
  • hiding one's treacherous intentions under the guise of friendship
• 2

  The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath.

  • old ideas in a new guise
• 3

  The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy.

  • Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
• 4

  archaicA change of behaviour resulting from intoxication, drunkenness.

disguiseverb/dɪsˈɡaɪz/

• 1

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

  • Spies often disguise themselves.
  • Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
• 2

  obsoleteTo transform or disfigure, to change the appearance of in general.

• 3

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

  • He disguised his true intentions.
• 4

  obsoleteTo dress in newfangled or showy clothing, to deck out in new fashions.

• 5

  obsoleteTo dissemble, to talk or act falsely while concealing one’s thoughts.

• 6

  archaicTo affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

  • 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 slip.
  • But my lord was angry, and being disguised with liquor too, he would not let him go till they played more; and play they did, and the luck still went the same way; […]