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All ensconce synonyms

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verb ensconce

  • hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
  • conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
  • screen — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
  • shield — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
  • situate — to put in or on a particular site or place; locate.
  • stash — to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place (usually followed by away): The squirrel stashes away nuts for winter.
  • bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
  • cache — A cache is a quantity of things such as weapons that have been hidden.
  • cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
  • ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
  • fix — to repair; mend.
  • instal — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
  • install — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
  • locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
  • nestle — to lie close and snug, like a bird in a nest; snuggle or cuddle.
  • place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • protect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • seat — something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
  • secrete — a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
  • set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • settle — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
  • shelter — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
  • station — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
  • curl up — to adopt a reclining position with the legs close to the body and the back rounded
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