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coveringnoun something that covers or conceals like a piece of clothwith the commotion on the dance floor as a covering, we were able to slip out undetected blanket, cloak, cope, cover, cover-up, 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 something that encloses another thing especially to protect itthe plastic coverings on lamp shades should be removed armor, capsule, case, casing, cocoon, cover, 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 coveringverbpresent participle of coverto serve as a replacement usually for a time onlya friend covered for me as a hospital volunteer while my family went on vacation filling in, pinch-hitting, standing in, stepping in, subbing, substituting, taking over understudyingrelieving, spellingdoubling (as) to form a layer overby morning a foot of snow covered the ground blanketing, carpeting, coating, overlaying, overlying, overspreading, sheeting enclosing(also inclosing), enrobing, enshrouding, enswathing, enveloping, enwrapping, mantling, shawling, shrouding, swathing, wrappingcloaking, clothing, curtaining, veilingcircling, encircling, encompassing to place a protective layer overbetter cover your skin with sunblock if you don't want a sunburn, not to mention skin cancer screening, shielding cloaking, clothing, veilingdraping, pallingcanopying, capping, crowningdisguising, masking, obscuring baring, exposing, uncovering to have (something) as a subject matterthis section of the book covers kitchen makeovers for the enterprising do-it-yourselfer concerning, dealing (with), pertaining (to), treating (of) appertaining (to), bearing (on or upon), referring (to), relating (to)adverting (to), alluding (to), citing, glancing (upon), instancing, mentioning, naming, noticing, noting, quoting, specifying, touching (upon)offering, presentingcontaining, embracing, encompassing, entailing, including, incorporating having to do with excluding, omittingdisregarding, forgetting, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking, overpassing, passing over, slighting, slurring (over)brushing (aside or off), rejecting, shrugging off to keep secret or shut off from viewcovered the foxhole with grass and leaves belying, blanketing, blotting out, cloaking, concealing, curtaining, disguising, enshrouding, hiding, masking, obscuring, occulting, papering over, screening, shrouding, suppressing, veiling burying, camouflaging, covering (up), smotheringgilding, glossing (over), varnishing, whitewashingbeclouding, bedimming, befogging, blocking, clouding, darkening, eclipsing, obstructing, occluding, overcasting, overshadowing, shading baring, disclosing, displaying, divulging, exposing, revealing, showing, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking, unveiling bringing out, presentingclarifying, illuminatingadvertising, airing, broadcasting, getting out, proclaiming, publicizing, publishing, spreading to make one's way through, across, or overwe usually manage to cover a lot of ground in a single day coursing, crossing, cutting (across), following, going, navigating, passing (over), perambulating, peregrinating, proceeding (along), tracking, transiting, traveling(or travelling), traversing hiking, traipsing, tramping, treading, walkingriding, runningcrisscrossing to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purposeI'll cover the reception desk while you take a break monitoring, watching surveillingeyeing(or eying)beholding, espying, looking, noticing, noting, observing, regarding, seeing, sighting, spying, viewing, witnessinggaping, gawking, gazing, glaring, goggling, peering, rubbernecking, staringglancing, glimpsing, peeking, peeping keeping an eye on to drive danger or attack away fromcovered the wounded soldier until he could be rescued from the downed chopper bulwarking, defending, fencing, fending, forfending, guarding, keeping, protecting, safeguarding, screening, securing, shielding, warding averting, preventingopposing, resisting, withstandingbattling, contending, fighting, warringconserving, preserving, savingbuffering, palisading, picketing, walling standing up for assailing, assaulting, attacking bombarding, stormingbesetting, besieging, overrunningcapitulating, caving, submitting, yielding in the 14th century |