"disguiser" meaning in English

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          "text": "A voice disguiser alters a person’s voice to protect their anonymity.",
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          "text": "Incense can be used as an odour disguiser.",
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          "text": "O, death’s a great disguiser; and you may add to it. Shave the head, and tie the beard; and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his death",
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          "text": "But night it self that great disguiser,\nWants power to conceal the least of crimes\nFrom any troubled breast […]"
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          "text": "If there were no alcohol or cigars, would not those who now use either to excess have recourse to some other form of stimulant or fatigue and pain disguiser instead?",
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          "text": "Benedict was once a scholar and now claims to be infallible in matters of faith or morals. But on the clearest facts of history he is a dissembler and disguiser.",
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          "text": "Browning’s poems of the love of man and woman are seldom a simple lyrical cry, but they are not on this account the less true in their presentment of that curious masquer and disguiser—Love. When love takes possession of a nature which is complex, affluents and tributaries from many and various faculties run into the main stream.",
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