Gloss Over

Definition: Gloss Over

Gloss Over

Verb

1. Treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly.

2. Cover up a misdemeanor; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin".

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

Synonyms: Gloss Over

Falsehood

Garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate; blague.

Reasoning,

Pervert, quibble; equivocate, mystify, evade, elude; gloss over, varnish; misteach; mislead; (error); cavil, refine, subtilize, split hairs; misrepresent; (lie).

Vindication

Extenuate, palliate, excuse, soften, apologize, varnish, slur, gloze; put a gloss, put a good face upon; mince; gloss over, bolster up, help a lame dog over a stile.

Crosswords: Gloss Over

Economic History

Australia

Although the sector has lost some of its gloss over the past year, following a stock market downturn, along with the collapse of some high-profile Australian companies, there is no doubt that e-commerce will continue to transform the way companies do business here. (references)

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

Expression using "gloss over": gloss over the facts. Additional references.

Albanian

lustroj (buff, clean, furbish, gloss, levigate, polish, rub up, varnish, whitewash). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تستر (disguise, incognito). (various references)

Bulgarian 

замазвам (gloss, lute, seal, slur over, smarm, smooth out, soft pedal, stifle, varnish, veneer). (various references)

Chinese 

掩飾 (to conceal a fault; gloss over). (various references)

Czech

vyhnout se (bypass, dodge, elude, evade, fend off, head off, obviate, opt, put by, shirk, sidestep), odbýt (brush off, dismiss, fob, polish off, post away, put off, rattle, repel, snub). (various references)

Finnish

painaa villaisella (hush up). (various references)

French

dissimuler (gloss). (various references)

German

schönfärben (to gloss over, whitewash). (various references)

Greek 

ξανασχολιάζω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לחפות על (cover, protect, secure). (various references)

Hungarian

elkendõz. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

言い繕う (to gloss over), 糊塗 (gloss over mistakes; patch up affairs). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いいつくろう (to gloss over). (various references)

Pig Latin

ossglay overay

Russian 

приукрашивать (embellish, embroider, pretty up, smarten, sugar coat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zagladiti. (various references)

Spanish

restar importancia a, pulir (brighten, buff, burnish, furbish, polish, rip off, rub up, sleek), pasar por alto (disregard, ignore, jump, overlook, pass by, pass over), paliar (palliate, varnish), lustrar (glaze, sheen, shine), encubrir (abet, be an accomplice in, cloak, conceal, cover, dissemble, Harbor, harbour, hide, hush, hush up, mask, receive, secrete, shelter, varnish, veil), disvirtuar, colorear (color, colour, varnish). (various references)

Swedish

misstolka (misinterpret, mistake). (various references)

Turkish

gizlemek (blot out, bottle up, Bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, draw a veil over, enshroud, 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), farklı yorumlamak, örtbas etmek (blanket, cloak, compound, conceal, cover up, explain away, gloss, 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

прикрашати (adorn, apparel, beautify, bedeck, bespread, brighten, caparison, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, dress out, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, grace, needle, ornament, ornamentalize, prettify, set forth, smug, sugar coat, trim, trim up, varnish). (various references)

lenieris, lenietur, lenior, lenirent, lenis. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: regosols.

-2 letters: glosser, glovers, grooves, grovels, regloss, regosol, solvers.

-3 letters: glover, gloves, gooses, gorses, groove, grovel, groves, lessor, looser, looses, losers, lovers, oglers, ogress, rooses, servos, solver, solves, sorels, sorgos, versos.

-4 letters: gesso, gloss, glove, goers, goose, gores, gorse, gross, grove, loess, loges, logos, loose, lores, loser, loses, lover, loves, ogler, ogles, ogres, oleos.