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covernoun a piece placed over an open container to hold in, protect, or conceal its contentswhere's the cover for the cookie jar? cap, lid, top dome, hood, roofcapsule, case, casing, covering, housing, jacket, sheath, shell means or method of defendingprovided cover while their comrades ran for safety aegis(also egis), ammunition, armor, buckler, defense, guard, protection, safeguard, screen, security, shield, wall, ward arm, armament, munitions, weapon, weaponryfastness, fort, fortress, palisade, stronghold aggression, assault, attack, offense(or offence), offensive something that encloses another thing especially to protect itput the restaurant menus in clear plastic covers so that they would last longer armor, capsule, case, casing, cocoon, covering, encasement, housing, hull, husk, jacket, pod, sheath, shell cartridge, cassette(also casette)bark, crustcarapace, house, mail, panoply, plate, plating, shieldcuticle, hide, skinenvelope, package, wrapperbacking, coating, coverture, facing a person or thing that takes the place of anotherpeople may only skip their shifts if they find a cover for themselves first backup, designated hitter, fill-in, locum tenens, pinch hitter, relief, replacement, reserve, stand-in, sub, substitute alternate, understudyapology, makeshift, stopgapagent, assignee, attorney, commissary, delegate, deputy, envoy, factor, procurator, proxy, rep, representative, surrogateassistant, reliever, secondsuccessor, superseder a raised covering over something for decoration or protectionall of the exhibits at the fair are under cover, so the weather won't be a factor awning, canopy, ceiling, roof, tent dome, marquee, pavilionarbor, bower, pergolascreen, shade, shelter, shield, sunshade, umbrellacanvas(also canvass), fly something that covers or conceals like a piece of clothunder cover of friendship the con man insinuated himself in the lives of the unsuspecting couple blanket, cloak, cope, cover-up, covering, coverture, curtain, hood, mantle, mask, pall, penumbra, robe, shroud, veil, wraps blind, concealer, screen, shieldfig leaf, Potemkin village, Trojan horsecamouflage, disguise, facade(also façade), face, veneergloss, varnish coververbto serve as a replacement usually for a time onlya friend covered for me as a hospital volunteer while my family went on vacation fill in, pinch-hit, stand in, step in, sub, substitute, take over understudyrelieve, spelldouble (as) to form a layer overby morning a foot of snow covered the ground blanket, carpet, coat, overlay, overlie, overspread, sheet enclose(also inclose), enrobe, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, mantle, shawl, shroud, swathe, wrapcloak, clothe, curtain, veilcircle, encircle, encompass to place a protective layer overbetter cover your skin with sunblock if you don't want a sunburn, not to mention skin cancer screen, shield cloak, clothe, veildrape, pallcanopy, cap, crowndisguise, mask, obscure bare, expose, uncover to have (something) as a subject matterthis section of the book covers kitchen makeovers for the enterprising do-it-yourselfer concern, deal (with), pertain (to), treat (of) appertain (to), bear (on or upon), refer (to), relate (to)advert (to), allude (to), cite, glance (upon), instance, mention, name, note, notice, quote, specify, touch (upon)offer, presentcontain, embrace, encompass, entail, include, incorporate have to do with exclude, omitdisregard, forget, ignore, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, slight, slur (over)brush (aside or off), reject, shrug off to keep secret or shut off from viewcovered the foxhole with grass and leaves belie, blanket, blot out, cloak, conceal, curtain, disguise, enshroud, hide, mask, obscure, occult, paper over, screen, shroud, suppress, veil bury, camouflage, cover (up), smothergild, gloss (over), varnish, whitewashbecloud, bedim, befog, block, cloud, darken, eclipse, obstruct, occlude, overcast, overshadow, shade bare, disclose, display, divulge, expose, reveal, show, uncloak, uncover, unmask, unveil bring out, presentclarify, illuminateadvertise, air, broadcast, get out, proclaim, publicize, publish, spread to make one's way through, across, or overwe usually manage to cover a lot of ground in a single day course, cross, cut (across), follow, go, navigate, pass (over), perambulate, peregrinate, proceed (along), track, transit, travel, traverse hike, traipse, tramp, tread, walkride, runcrisscross to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purposeI'll cover the reception desk while you take a break monitor, watch surveileyebehold, espy, look, note, notice, observe, regard, see, sight, spy, view, witnessgape, gawk, gaze, glare, goggle, peer, rubberneck, stareglance, glimpse, peek, peep keep an eye on to drive danger or attack away fromcovered the wounded soldier until he could be rescued from the downed chopper bulwark, defend, fence, fend, forfend, guard, keep, protect, safeguard, screen, secure, shield, ward avert, preventoppose, resist, withstandbattle, contend, fight, warconserve, preserve, savebuffer, palisade, picket, wall stand up for assail, assault, attack bombard, stormbeset, besiege, overruncapitulate, cave, submit, yield in the 13th century |