English
Alternative forms
Noun
smokescreen (plural smokescreens)
- Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
- Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.
- All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say.
Translations
disguise, mask, cover
- Armenian: ծխածածկույթ (hy) (cxacackuytʿ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 煙幕 (zh), 烟幕 (zh) (yānmù)
- Dutch: rookgordijn f
- Estonian: suitsukate
- Finnish: savuverho (fi)
- French: écran de fumée (fr) m, rideau de fumée m
- German: Nebelwand f
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- Japanese: 煙幕 (えんまく, enmaku)
- Korean: 연막 (yeonmak) (煙幕 (ko))
- Latvian: dūmu aizsegs m
- Polish: zasłona dymna (pl) f
- Portuguese: cortina de fumaça f
- Russian: дымова́я заве́са f (dymovája zavésa)
- Swedish: rökridå c
- Turkish: sis perdesi (tr)
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anything used to conceal or distract
- Armenian: ծխածածկույթ (hy) (cxacackuytʿ)
- Finnish: savuverho (fi)
- French: écran de fumée (fr) m
- Japanese: 煙幕 (えんまく, enmaku)
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