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1. phrasal verbIf 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] [Also VERB PARTICLE noun ] 2. phrasal verbIf 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? [VERB PARTICLE + for] 3. See also cover-up See full dictionary entry for cover
Word forms: plural cover-upsregional note: in AM, also use coverupcountable nounA cover-up is an attempt to hide a crime or mistake. The general denied there'd been any cover-up. Synonyms: concealment, conspiracy, whitewash [informal], complicity More Synonyms of cover-up cover-up in British Englishnoun1. 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 to defend the body and head with the arms cover up in American English 1. to cover entirely; envelop; wrap 2. to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being known See full dictionary entry for cover Examples of 'cover-up' in a sentencecover-up In other languagescover up British English: cover-up NOUN A cover-up is an attempt to hide a crime or mistake. The general denied there'd been any cover-up. - American English: cover-up
- Brazilian Portuguese: encobrimento dos fatos
- Chinese: 掩盖对罪行、错误的
- European Spanish: encubrimiento
- French: tentative pour étouffer une affaireN
- German: Vertuschung
- Italian: occultamento
- Japanese: もみ消し
- Korean: 은폐
- European Portuguese: encobrimento dos factos
- Latin American Spanish: encubrimiento
Chinese translation of 'cover up' vt to cover sth up (with sth) [person, object] (用某物)将(將)某物盖(蓋)住 ((yòng mǒuwù) jiāng mǒuwù gàizhù) - [facts, feelings, mistakes]
(用某事)掩饰(飾)某事 ((yòng mǒushì) yǎnshì mǒushì)
vi to cover up for sb 替某人掩饰(飾) (tì mǒurén yǎnshì)
See cover Definition concealment or attempted concealment of a mistake or crime He denied there'd been any cover-up of the fraud. Synonyms conspiracy smoke screen smoke and mirrors Additional synonymsDefinition the fact of being an accomplice in a crime evidence of their complicity with the opposition Synonyms collusion, conspiracy, collaboration, connivance, abetment Definition a business or other activity serving as a respectable cover for another, usually criminal, organization a front for crime syndicates Synonyms disguise, cover, screen, blind, mask, cover-up, cloak, façade, pretextDefinition an attempt to conceal the unpleasant truth The report's findings were condemned as total whitewash. Synonyms cover-up, deception, camouflage, concealment, smoke and mirrors, extenuation |