a way of hiding soldiers and military equipment, using paint, leaves or nets, so that they look like part of what is around or near them

the way in which an animal’s colour or shape matches what is around or near it and makes it difficult to see

The whiteness of polar bears and arctic foxes provides camouflage.

The leopard’s spots act as (a) camouflage.

Predators make as much use of camouflage as their prey do.

behaviour that is deliberately meant to hide the truth

Her angry words were camouflage for the way she felt.

to hide somebody/something/yourself by making them/it/yourself look like the things around, or like something else

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