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- ▪ put something on top of or in front of something in order to protect or conceal it
- ▪ put on more clothes
1. a. : a device or stratagem for masking or concealing. his garrulousness is a cover-up for insecurity. b. : a usually concerted effort to keep an illegal or unethical act or situation from being made public. 2. : a loose outer garment.
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to keep something unpleasant or illegal secret or hidden: He accused the police of covering up for each other.
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 ]
A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence, or other embarrassing information. Research has distinguished personal cover-ups (covering up one's own misdeeds) from relational cover-ups (covering up someone else's misdeeds). [1]
Cover-up definition: any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.. See examples of COVER-UP used in a sentence.
cover-up. noun [ C ] us / ˈkʌv.ɚ.ʌp / uk / ˈkʌv.ər.ʌp /. an attempt to prevent the public from discovering information about a serious crime or mistake: cover-up of Allegations of a cover-up of the effects of pollution have been strongly denied. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
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.
