Hided

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have concealed an item or detail from view or knowledge
2. To have kept something hidden from others, preventing its discovery or awareness
3. Having placed something out of view or kept it secret from others

Etymology: "Hided" is simply the past tense and past participle of "hide," so its story is the story of that verb. Its form comes from Middle English, where "hided" was built from "hide" plus the regular past-tense ending "-ed," the same pattern that produced "walked" or "wanted." The surprise lies in how the verb itself was once conjugated. Modern English "hide" takes the form "hid" in the past and "hidden" as a participle, and "hided" is the regular form that competes with those irregular ones. Because "hid" and "hidden" have long been the standard choices, "hided" now reads as a nonstandard variant. Speakers who use it are applying the regular rule to a verb that never fully settled into it, which is why you will find it in older texts and in informal speech rather than in formal writing.

Synonyms: concealed, hidden, cloaked

Antonyms: revealed, exposed