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Verb (used with object)
Journalism .
- to act as a reporter or reviewer of (an event, a field of interest, a performance, etc.); have as an assignment
- She covers sports for the paper.
- to publish or broadcast a report or reports of (a news item, a series of related events, etc.)
- The press covered the trial in great detail.
Military .
- to be in line with by occupying a position directly before or behind.
- to protect (a soldier, force, or military position) during an expected period of ground combat by taking a position from which any hostile troops can be fired upon.
(in short selling) to purchase securities or commodities in order to deliver them to the broker from whom they were borrowed.
Verb (used without object)
to hide the wrongful or embarrassing action of another by providing an alibi or acting in the other's place
Noun
Ecology . vegetation that serves to protect or conceal animals, such as birds, from excessive sunlight, from drying, or from predators.
a set of eating utensils and the like, as plate, knife, fork, and napkin, placed for each person at a table.
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noun
- awning , bark , binding , camouflage , canopy , canvas , cap , caparison , case , ceiling , cloak , clothing , coating , covering , coverlet , disguise , dome , dress , drop , envelope , facade , false front * , fig leaf , front , guise , hood , integument , jacket , lid , marquee , mask , masquerade , overlay , paint , parasol , polish , pretense , put-on , roof , screen , seal , semblance , sheath , sheet , shroud , smoke screen * , spread , stopper , tarp , tarpaulin , tegument , tent , top , umbrella , varnish , veil , veneer , window-dressing , wrapper , wraps , asylum , concealment , covert , defense , guard , harbor , harborage , haven , port , protection , refuge , retreat , safety , sanctuary , security , shelter , color , coloring , disguisement , face , false colors , gloss , pretext , show , bush , capsule , casing , cloisters , cope , cortex , counterpane , jungle , mantle , operculum , pall , pallium , plate , quilt , safeguard , superimposition , tilt , underbrush , undergrowth , underwood
verb
- blanket , board up , bury , bush up , cache , camouflage , canopy , cap , carpet , cloak , clothe , coat , conceal , cover up , crown , curtain , daub , disguise , do on the sly , dress , eclipse , encase , enclose , enfold , ensconce , enshroud , envelop , hood , house , invest , layer , mantle , mask , obscure , overcast , overlay , overspread , protect , put on , screen , secrete , set on , shade , shield , shroud , stash , superimpose , superpose , surface , veil , bulwark , defend , fend , reinforce , safeguard , secure , shelter , watch over , be enough , comprehend , comprise , consider , deal with , embody , embrace , encompass , examine , incorporate , involve , meet , provide for , reach , refer to , suffice , survey , take account of , broadcast , detail , investigate , narrate , recount , relate , report , tell of , write up , balance , counterbalance , double for , insure , make good , make up for , offset , relieve , stand in for , substitute , take over , take the rap for , cross , do , journey over , pass over , pass through , range , track , traverse , trek , hide , hush , clad , sheathe , side , skin , spread , make , copulate with , drape , hatch , laminate , lid , obnubilate , overlie , pave , roof , sanctuary , serve , span , tegmen , thatch , whitewash , wrap
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