hid
- 1Past tense of hide.
The children hid in the closet during the thunderstorm.
He hid his disappointment behind a polite smile.
Note
One past-tense form serves both ways of hiding: with an object (she hid the letter) and without one (the children hid). It is not the form to use after have or be. There, modern English wants hidden (had hidden, was hidden), and the older participle hid belongs to earlier writing.
- 2Past participle of hide. Archaic; "hidden" is the usual form today.
The treasure had long been hid beneath the floorboards of the cottage.
To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
1873, Richard Morris, Walter William SkeatNote
Older English used the short form where we now say hidden, after be as readily as after have. The King James Bible of 1611 has "neither any thing hid", and Jane Austen's Emma (1815) has a lost item that "was quite hid". In 1873 Richard Morris and Walter Skeat still gloss a Swaledale dialect verb as "to lie hid". Today it sounds deliberately old-fashioned, so in ordinary prose write hidden.
hid is a form of hide
hide, verb: To put someone or something, including oneself, in a place where they will be out of sight or hard to find. Full entry
- Spelling
- hide → hid: irregular (no -ed)
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