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   What does cover up mean?

   • If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them. He fell asleep in the front room so I covered him up with a duvet. [VERB noun PARTICLE] If you cover up something that you do not want people to know about, you hide the truth about it. He suspects there's a conspiracy to cover up the crime.

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   What is a cover-up in football?

   • Thanks to an exhaustive coverup, one of the biggest disasters in football history is also one of its least publicised. The symptomatic treatments recommended by doctors include taking antibiotics to dampen any infection and using coverup make-up. A cover-up is an attempt to hide a crime or mistake. The general denied there'd been any cover-up.

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   What does it mean if you cover up a crime?

   • If you cover up something that you do not want people to know about, you hide the truth about it. He suspects there's a conspiracy to cover up the crime. [VERB PARTICLE noun] They knew they had done something terribly wrong and lied to cover it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] How do we know you're not just covering up for your friend?

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   Is Everything a coverup?

   • I know of many instances of coverup. They think everything is a coverup. It was a classic coverup. There is nothing worse than a coverup. Each case is swayed by individual circumstances: the severity of the lie or coverup, time remaining in office and the reservoir of goodwill built up among voters -- or lack thereof.

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   an attempt to prevent the public from discovering information about a serious crime or mistake: I'm convinced there was an intentional coverup, that officials haven't told all they know about what happened. (Definition of coverup from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of coverup. coverup.

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     an attempt to prevent the public from discovering...

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     noun [ C ] uk / ˈkʌvərʌp / us. Add to word list. an attempt...

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   4 days ago · 1. concealment or attempted concealment of a mistake, crime, etc. verb cover up (adverb) 2. (transitive) to cover completely. 3. (when intr, often foll by for) to attempt to conceal (a mistake or crime) she tried to cover up for her friend. 4. (intransitive) boxing.

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   an attempt to prevent the public from discovering information about a serious crime or mistake: I'm convinced there was an intentional coverup, that officials haven't told all they know about what happened. (Definition of coverup from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of coverup. coverup.

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   Definitions of cover-up. noun. concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public. see more. Pronunciation. US.

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   noun. concealment or attempted concealment of a mistake, crime, etc. verb. tr to cover completely. whenintr, often foll by for to attempt to conceal (a mistake or crime) she tried to cover up for her friend. intr boxing to defend the body and head with the arms. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of cover-up 1.

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   noun [ C ] uk / ˈkʌvərʌp / us. Add to word list. an attempt to prevent people finding out the truth about a crime or a mistake: Police denied accusations of a cover-up. (Definition of cover-up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of cover-up. in more languages. Need a translator?

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   May 22, 2024 · 1. an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed. 2. US. an outer garment, esp. for wearing over a swimsuit. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Examples of 'coverup' in a sentence. coverup.