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COVER UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hide from view or knowledge
Example:
The President covered the fact that he bugged the offices in the White House
Synonyms:
cover; cover up
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "cover up" is one way to...):
conceal; hide (prevent from being seen or discovered)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cover up"):
gloss over; hush up; sleek over; whitewash (cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
cover-up (concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public)
