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(verb) clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!" |
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Synonyms: wrap up |
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Related Words: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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(verb) protect by insurance; "The insurance won't cover this" |
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Synonyms: insure, underwrite |
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Related Words: guarantee, indemnify, reinsure, warrant |
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(noun) fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations; "artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal" |
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Synonyms: covering fire |
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Related Words: fire, firing |
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(verb) maintain a check on; esp. by patrolling; "The second officer covered the top floor" |
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Related Words: ascertain, assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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(noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it; "the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft" |
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Synonyms: covering, masking, screening |
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Related Words: concealing, concealment, hiding, secreting |
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(verb) deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization" |
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Synonyms: address, deal, handle, plow, treat, work |
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Related Words: broach, discourse, discuss, initiate, spiel, talk about |
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(verb) hold within range of an aimed firearm |
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Related Words: protect |
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(verb) protect or defend a position in a game; "he covered left field" |
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Related Words: protect |
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(verb) be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game |
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Related Words: protect |
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(verb) play a higher card than the one previously played; "Smith covered again" |
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Related Words: play |
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(verb) form a cover over; "The grass covered the grave" |
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Synonyms: spread over |
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Related Words: adjoin, blanket, bloody, cake, carpet, coat, drown, flood, glaciate, grass, grass over, mantle, meet, mist, mist over, overwhelm, shroud, smother, strew, submerge, touch |
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(verb) provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; cover the grave with flowers" |
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Related Words: aluminize, apply, bank, bark, bedaub, besmear, bind, blacklead, blanket, blindfold, blinker, block out, board up, bread, brush, butter, canopy, carpet, clapboard, coat, concrete, cowl, crape, crepe, crown, daub, drape, dust, enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, face, feather, felt, flake, flash, foil, frost, grass, gravel, grease, hold, hood, ice, jacket, lag, laminate, lather, lime, line, mask, mound over, mulch, oil, paint, pall, paper, parcel, paste, plank, plank over, plaster, plaster over, put on, recover, roof, sheathe, sheet, smear, smother, soap, sod, spray, spread, stick on, straw, surface, surround, tile, turf, veneer, wallpaper, wash, wax, white-out, wrap, wrap up |
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Antonyms: uncover |
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(verb) spread over a surface to conceal or protect; "This paint covers well" |
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Related Words: conceal, hide |
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(verb) hide from view or knowledge; "The President covered the fact that he bugged the offices in the White House" |
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Synonyms: cover up |
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Related Words: conceal, gloss over, hide, hush up, sleek over, whitewash |
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(verb) be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of; "Is this enough to cover the check?" |
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Related Words: be |
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(verb) to take an action to protect against future problems; "Count the cash in the drawer twice just to cover yourself." |
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Related Words: protect |
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(verb) help out by taking someone's place an temporarily assuming his responsibilities; "She is covering for our secretary who is ill this week" |
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Related Words: deputize, stand in, step in, substitute |
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(verb) invest with a large or excessive amount of something; "She covered herself with glory" |
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Related Words: empower, endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
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(verb) compensate or make up for |
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Related Words: compensate, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up |
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(verb) provide for; "The grant doesn't cover my salary" |
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Related Words: fulfil, fulfill, live up to, satisfy |
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(verb) span an interval of distance, space or time; "The war extended over five years"; "The period covered the turn of the century"; "My land extends over the hills on the horizon"; "This farm covers some 200 acres" |
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Synonyms: extend |
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Related Words: be, constellate, cross, dot, overlap, overspread, ridge, span, spread, stud, sweep, traverse |
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(verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism; "Snow reported on China in the 1950's"; "The cub reporter covered New York City" |
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Synonyms: report |
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Related Words: inform |
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(verb) put something on top of something else; "cover the meat with a lot of gravy" |
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Synonyms: overlay |
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Related Words: splash |
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(verb) copulate with a female, used esp. of horses; "The horse covers the mare" |
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Synonyms: breed |
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Related Words: copulate, couple, mate, pair |
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(noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep" |
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Synonyms: blanket |
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Related Words: Mackinaw blanket, afghan, bed clothing, bedclothes, bedding, electric blanket, mackinaw, manta, security blanket |
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(noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "they crouched behind the screen"; "under cover of darkness" |
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Synonyms: concealment, covert, screen |
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Related Words: blind, camouflage, covering, shoji, stalking-horse |
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(noun) something that covers a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container); "he removed the top of the carton"; "put the cover back on the kettle" |
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Synonyms: top |
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Related Words: cap, covering, lid, manhole cover |
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(verb) sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" |
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Synonyms: brood, hatch, incubate |
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Related Words: multiply, procreate, reproduce |
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(verb) travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" |
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Synonyms: cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
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Related Words: bridge, crisscross, ford, go across, go through, hop, jaywalk, pass, stride, walk |
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(noun) the front and back covering of a book; "the book had a leather binding" |
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Synonyms: back, binding, book binding |
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Related Words: half binding, protection, protective covering, three-quarter binding |
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(noun) a natural object that covers or envelops; "the fox was flushed from its cover" |
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Synonyms: covering, natural covering |
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Related Words: bark, blanket, body covering, case, crust, eggshell, encrustation, envelope, floral envelope, incrustation, indusium, integument, mantle, natural object, perianth, pericarp, peridium, sac, scale, seed vessel, sheath, shell, slough, test, theca |
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(verb) cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery" |
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Synonyms: enshroud, hide, shroud |
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Related Words: enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
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(verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory; "This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group" |
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Synonyms: comprehend, embrace, encompass |
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Related Words: include |
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