Cover Up

Definition: Cover Up

Cover Up

Verb

1. Hide from view or knowledge; "The President covered the fact that he bugged the offices in the White House".

2. Conceal the truth; "The White House covered up the burglary".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Cover Up

Concealment

Cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper.

Crosswords: Cover Up

Just though you might need it to cover up that dead hippie you just murdered. (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall)

And cover up my Itchy Amorada? (The Cosby Show; writing credit: Bob Shayne)

I'll start gathering some branches to cover up the car. Oh hey, look! (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

If you're the best they have, they'll more likely try and cover up your embarrassing incompetence. (A View to a Kill; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Men always think they can cover up their, you know, with this other thing. (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls)

Cover Up (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Addictive Organization: Why We Overwork, Cover Up, Pick Up the Pieces, Please the Boss and Perpetuate Sick Organizations (reference)

• Currents of Death: Power Lines, Computer Terminals, and the Attempt to Cover Up Their Threat to Your Health (reference)

• Whitewash Two: The FBI Secret Service Cover Up (reference)

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Music

• Cover Up (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• High Chair Cover Up - Navy (reference)

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Large drifts of good Kansas top soil threaten to cover up this farmer's home. Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

A farmer's son playing on one of the large soil drifts which threaten to cover up his home. Liberal, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Thou mayest cover up thy secret from the prying multitude.

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Business

According to the Energy Policy, the role of gas will grow in the future and gas should cover up to 25% of the country's energy supply. (references)

Children

Antigua and Barbuda

The opposition UPP called for a full and thorough investigation, but observers claimed that there was an effort to cover up the incidents, rather than to prosecute in accordance with existing legislation for the protection of minors. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

Opposition leaders historically have accused the Government of using the OSA to cover up corruption. (references)

China

Quick and accurate reporting by the media led to the arrest in August of 15 persons who had tried to cover up the disaster. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Some magistrates help cover up the abuse by issuing investigation reports stating that the victims died of natural causes. (references)

India

Human rights groups allege that encounters often are faked by police to cover up the torture and subsequent killing of both militants and noncombatants. (references)

Guatemala

In others, there was credible evidence of a cover up by police officers, the ORP, or both; and frequently investigations by the Prosecutor's Office were inadequate. (references)

Trade

West Bank

The direct loan and/or guarantee can cover up to 85% of the contract amount. (references)

Women

Israel and the occupied territories

At least 10 of the 11 Arab women killed during the year by male relatives were killed in family "honor" cases; families often attempted to cover up the cause of such deaths. (references)

Worker Rights

Nicaragua

These programs, which cover up to 10,000 children nationwide, include childcare services, return-to-school programs, and technical and vocational training. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cover up": cover up for ♦ cover up for smb. ♦ cover up with ♦ cover up with a smoke screen. Additional references.

Albanian

vesh (accredit, apparel, array, arrogate, ascribe, attire, attribute, back, cannon, clothe, coat, Don, dress, ear, endue, enrobe, face, garb, gird, hanger, impute, inlay, invest, line, lug, overlay, paper, pop, pull on, put on, raceme, revet, sheathe, tapestry, throw on, tog, vesture, wear, whack), mbulim (cover, coverage, disguise, dissimulation, overlay, roofing, veiling), mbështjell mirë, maskim (camouflage, cover, disguise). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غطاء (bed clothes, casement, casing, clothing, coat, coating, cot, cover, covering, coverlet, envelope, facing, housing, jacket, lid, overlay, robe, roofing, rug, shroud, tarpaulin, tilt, top, vesture, wrapping), ‏حجب الحقائق, ‏ستر (coat, cover, enshroud, inter, screen, shade, veil), ‏أخفى جريمة, ‏أخفى (cloak, conceal, harbor, harbour, hid, hill, hush, keep, obscure, obstruct, palm, receive, secrete, shelter, smother, stash, stow, suppress, wrap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

маска (blind, disguise, guise, mask, visard, visor, vizor), завивам добре, прикритие (blind, cover, covering party, coverture, fig leaf, overlap, protection, screen, varnish), покривам (bestride, cap, case, clothe, coat, cope, cover, deck, defray, do over, encase, encrust, enshroud, film, horse, invest, mantle, overcast, overlay, overlie, overspread, pave, pit, pustulate, sheet, surmount, vesture, wreathe). (various references)

Chinese 

遮 (screen off, to conceal, to hide), 包庇 (harbor, shield), 掩�"� (conceal, hide behind), 掩 (to surprise), 揜 (to surprise). (various references)

Czech

zatušování, zamaskovat (disguise), zakrýt (cloud, cover, veil), ututlání, tutlat, maskování (camouflage, masking), krýt se. (various references)

Danish

reparationer og overhamringer med henblik paa at skjule fejl er ikke tilladte (repairs and caulking intended to cover up defects are forbidden). (various references)

Dutch

herstellen en dichthameren om foutieve plaatsen aan het oog te onttrekken is verboden (repairs and caulking intended to cover up defects are forbidden). (various references)

Finnish

peittää (cloak, coat, cover, disguise, envelop). (various references)

French

couvrir (coat, cover), cacher (conceal, cover), dissimuler (conceal). (various references)

German

zudecken (blanket, cover, cover over, to cover up, tuck up). (various references)

Greek 

κρύβω (cache, conceal, conceal from, cover, delie, hide, obscure), συγκάλυψη (camouflage, concealment, masking). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"חביא (conceal, hide, put away, secrete). (various references)

Hungarian

eltüntet (clear away, hide, take away, to charm away, to conjure away, to remove, to secrete, to spirit away, to spirit off, to take away), befed (overlay, overspread, roof, to cope, to cover over, to deck, to do over, to drape, to enshroud, to hovel, to revet, to sheathe, to wrap), álcázás (camouflage, cover-up, dazzle, mask, masking, palliation, protective concealment, screen, screening, shielding). (various references)

Indonesian

penggelapan (black out, blackout, darkenong, embezling, embezzlement, fraud, malversation, scam), bukut. (various references)

Italian

copertura (casing, cover, coverage, covering, lid, overlay). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

空�'�"�う (to cover up the sky), 包み� す (to conceal, to cover up, to keep secret), 包み飾る (to cover up and make a show), 庇う (to cover up for someone, to plead for, to protect someone, to stick up for, to take under one's wing), 押し� す (to conceal, to cover up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしかくす (to conceal, to cover up), そら�'おおう (to cover up the sky), つつみかくす (to conceal, to cover up, to keep secret), つつみかざる (to cover up and make a show), かばう (to cover up for someone, to plead for, to protect someone, to stick up for, to take under one's wing). (various references)

Manx

keiltyn (conceal, concealment, cover, disguise, dissimulate, dissimulation, harbour, hide, renege, shelter, sneak, suppress, suppression, veil, veneer), follaghey (bo-peep, cache, conceal, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, dissimulation, hide, hiding, muffle, occult, occultation, secrecy, secrete, veil). (various references)

Pig Latin

overcay upay

Portuguese

cobrir (bescreen, blanket, case, clapboard, clothe, coat, come over, cope, cover, curtain, daub, deck, drape, encase, enfold, face, fleece, incase, mantle, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overlie, overspread, pelt, putty, serve, shell, sow, spread, suffuse, to collect, to cover, top, wrap), abafar (blanket, burke, choke, cushion, damp, drench, drown, hugger-mugger, hush up, muffle, pilfer, quell, smother, steal the show, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter). (various references)

Russian 

укрыть (conceal, shelter), прятать (conceal, hid, hide, put away, secrete), предлог (cloak, excuse, preposition, stalking-horse), прикрытие (coverage, covering party, cover-up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zataškavanje (palliation, whitewash), zabašuriti (hush up), prikrivanje (concealment, dissimulation, palliation), prikriti (conceal, dissimulate, hush up). (various references)

Spanish

cubierto (cloaking, covered, overcast, place, server), traer (bring, bring along, bring around, bring forward, bring in, bring round, bringing, call up, carry, carry back, fetch, get, take along, wear, wheel out), mostrar (develop, display, evince, exhibit, hold up, indicate, inquire, manifest, point out, put forth, show, tender), encubrir a uno. (various references)

Swedish

tysta ner (Burke, howl, hush, lay, shut up), täcka över (cover, overlay), skyla över (palliate). (various references)

Turkish

gizlemek (blot out, bottle up, Bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, conceal, disguise, dissemble, draw a veil over, enshroud, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep back, keep from, keep in dark, keep in one's bosom, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, mask, obscure, plant, pocket, screen, secrete, sheathe, shroud, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), bürümek (clothe, infest, suffuse, wrap), örtmek (blanket, canopy, cap, carpet, case, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, coat, conceal, condone, cope, cover, encase, enshroud, envelop, hood, incase, lap, robe, screen, shade, sheet, shield, shroud, shut, submerge, wrap), örtbas etmek (blanket, cloak, compound, conceal, explain away, gloss, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep smth. quiet, obscure, palliate, paper, sink, smother up, suppress, sweep under the carpet, veneer, wash out, whitewash). (various references)

Ukrainian

маскування (camouflage, disguise, screening), закутати, приховати, приховання. (various references)

obruent, obruentur, obruerunt, obruet, obruetur, obrutus, occulta, occulte, occultis, occulto, occultos, occultum, occultus, vela, velabant, velabat, velabis, velabitis, velantium, velare, velatam, velato, velatum, velatur, velaverunt, velet. (various references)

Misspellings

"Cover Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coverup. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coverup.

-1 letter: croupe, recoup.

-2 letters: coper, coupe, cover, croup, curve, prove.

-3 letters: cero, cope, core, coup, cove, crop, cure, ecru, euro, over, pore, pour, puce, pure, repo, rope, roue, roup, rove.

-4 letters: cep, cop, cor, cue, cup, cur, ecu, ope, orc, ore, our, pec, per, pro, pur, rec, rep, rev, roc, roe, rue, upo, voe.

-5 letters: er.

+1 letter: coverups.

+3 letters: corruptive, productive.

+4 letters: overproduce, provocateur.

+5 letters: corruptively, overproduced, overproduces, productively, provocateurs, reproductive, unproductive.