0 past simple and past participle of dissemble
1 to hide your real intentions and feelings or the facts:
He accused the government of dissembling.
He never dissembled, and to such men much may be forgiven.
They have elevated media manipulation to an art form: they have leaked, briefed and dissembled.
Their feelings towards each other are only dissembled and their relationship to other people gain in importance.
In order to make something new, the old must be abandoned and/or dissembled.
The glider, after being launched and landing could quickly be dissembled and removed from the tank.
It may be objected to this that he never dissembled his views.
All large equipment was required to be dissembled then re-assembled at the top camp radar station.
Not only do girls engage in more non-verbal forms of social aggression than boys do, girls dissembled more than boys do, speaking nicely but making mean faces.
