come out(BECOME KNOWN)
closet
verb[ Tusually passive ]
uk /ˈklɒz.ɪt/ us /ˈklɑː.zɪt/
to put yourself in a place, especially a closed space, and stay there: 关，藏，封闭
closet yourself in somethingTwo weeks before my exams I closeted myself in my room with my books and I didn't speak to anyone.
be closeted withThe president has been closeted with (= having a private meeting with) his advisers for several hours.总统与顾问们已经密谈了好几个小时了。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Closing and blocking
barricade
batten
batten down the hatchesidiom
be snowed upidiom
block something off
bung
choke
closing time
congest
cork
dam
dam something up
fur
sandbag
seal something in
seal something off
self-seal
self-sealing
silt
the darkest hour is just before the dawnidiom
closet
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈklɒz.ɪt/ us /ˈklɑː.zət/
used to refer to a belief, activity, or feeling that is kept secret from the public, usually because you are frightened of the results of it becoming known: 私下的，秘密的，不公开的
a closet alcoholic/smoker不愿承认的酗酒者/吸烟者
Dole portrayed the president in campaign speeches as a "closet liberal".多尔在竞选演讲中将总统描绘为“藏而不露的自由主义者”。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Secrecy and privacy
anonymity
anonymization
anonymize
anonymous
anonymously
data protection
dead men tell no talesidiom
dissimulate
dissimulation
down-low
on the quietidiom
privacy
privacy settings
private
privately
under wrapsidiom
undisclosed
unrevealed
unsourced
unstated

closet | American Dictionary

closet
noun[ C ]
us/ˈklɑz·ɪt/
a small room or space in a wall where you can store things such as clothes, sheets, etc., often having a door so that it can be closed:
a clothes/linen closet
closet
adjective
us/ˈklɑz·ɪt/
kept secret from others:
a closet liberal
closet
verb[ Talways+ adv/prep ]
us/ˈklɑz·ət/
to arrange to meet privately with someone where you will not be interrupted:
The president and his advisers closeted themselves with the congressional leadership.

Examples of closet

closet
She expected some control over cabinet appointments, and often worried about her closet being stormed.
This metaphor disrupts the metaphors of the closet.
After you died, he immediately took your clothes out of the closet.
It is refreshing to see closet drama discussed as a cultural practice in its own right rather than as a secondary (feminized and marginalized) genre.
This veritable ' skeleton in the closet' continues to trouble both ars nova aesthetics and the musicologists who concern themselves with this repertory.
I consider three "sites" from which meaning is generated: the spectacle; otherness and sameness/misrecognition and identity; and secrets and closets.
They were also furnished with such modern sanitary wares as bathtubs, water closet, hand washbasin with marble counter top and timber cabinets.
Accommodations for women included standard water closets available for their use at a charge of one penny.
His redefinition of the closet has an interpretation which views the closet as the place where one's false self resides.
Her perspective, though, is made relative by the other speakers and by the form in which it is presented: the verse or closet drama.
He is also a closet genre novel writer.
I have come out of the age closet.
An architectural school offers a very different form of education to the closeted and uneven, if occasionally brilliant, alternative of the old apprentice based system.
The local doctor found us a dressing room used by residents, little more than a closet, and left us there with our kinsman.
Coming out of a cupboard or closet might signal a refusal to accede to the dominion of gender normativity.
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