cover up

See also: coverup and cover-up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

cover up (third-person singular simple present covers up, present participle covering up, simple past and past participle covered up)

1. (idiomatic) To conceal or disguise.

   The politician tried to cover up his involvement in the scandal.

   • 1980, “Best of Boston”, in Real Paper:

     Even when [the mechanics] didn't know how to fix everything, they never cheated anybody or covered up. So over the years they kept learning new makes and new techniques, and now can repair about anything.

   • 2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 11:

     TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.

2. (idiomatic) To clothe.
3. (idiomatic) To put covers over oneself in bed.

   Please cover up and go to sleep now.

Synonyms

• hide, conceal, forcover

Translations

to conceal or disguise

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• Azerbaijani: ört-basdır etmək
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• Danish: skjule (da), mørklægge
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• French: cacher (fr), dissimuler (fr), couvrir (fr)
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• German: vertuschen (de)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌷𐌰𐌽 (filhan)
• Greek: κουκουλώνω (el) (koukoulóno)
• Hungarian: elleplez (hu), leplez (hu), eltussol (hu), elhallgat (hu)
• Indonesian: tutup-tutupi
• Irish: cumhdaigh
• Italian: insabbiare, occultare (it)
• Latin: obtegō, operiō (la)
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• Maori: tauhuna
• Polish: tuszować impf, zatuszowywać impf, zatuszować pf
• Portuguese: encobrir (pt)
• Romanian: acoperi (ro), ascunde (ro), mușamaliza (ro)
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• Spanish: encubrir (es), cohonestar (es)
• Swedish: mörklägga (sv), täcka över (sv), skyla (sv)
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to clothe

• French: couvrir (fr)
• Irish: cumhdaigh
• Maori: whakapūngenengene

See also

• cover-up

Anagrams

• overcup