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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
The meaning of COVER-UP is a device or stratagem for masking or concealing. How to use cover-up in a sentence.
to keep something unpleasant or illegal secret or hidden: He accused the police of covering up for each other.
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.
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]
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 ]
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.
Definitions of cover-up. noun. concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public. see more. Pronunciation. US.
cov·er-up. or cov·er·up (kŭv′ər-ŭp′) n. 1. An effort or strategy of concealment, especially a planned effort to prevent something potentially scandalous from becoming public. 2. A loose garment for wear over other clothing, such as a swimsuit or an evening dress.
Cover-up definition: An effort or strategy of concealment, especially a planned effort to prevent something potentially scandalous from becoming public.
