cover up's Usage Examples:

a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General of using Tether"s funds to cover up "850 million in funds missing since mid-2018.

Hindu-Muslim riot but a calculated cold-blooded massacre of Muslims by a rabidly communal police force which tried to cover up its genocide by making it.

During World War I he was sent to the front because of attempt to cover up a sabotage by factory workers.

The Post came under further criticism, when in an attempt to cover up Lane's original comments, which many of the Post's readers found to be inappropriate or offensive, editors of Lane's at the Post scrubbed Lane's remarks from the website, so that some readers would never know that they had ever been written in the first place.

This has been interpreted by modern historians as an attempt to cover up her involvement.

to cover up indiscreet comments or actions by Wagner which appeared discreditable.

She gave birth to two children fathered by a local aristocrat, and had connived in the murder of another nun in order to cover up the affair.

Unaware of who her kidnapper was, Lizzie turn to Cyrus Foley to clear Bill's name (unaware that Cyrus had helped Grady cover up his role in her kidnapping).

third series, his true emotions are explored and it is revealed that his womanising violent lifestyle is in fact a smoke screen to cover up his real emotions.

blow, Aasif was already dead, which none of the five was aware of! Sara introspects in guilt that what if they were framed to cover up the actual murder.

Bill and Steffy manipulatively work together to cover up their work of trying to keep Liam for reuniting.

Hart confronted Roger at Laurel Falls with a vial of the drugs and threatened to the police Roger had been trying to drive his wife insane in an effort to cover up the fact he robbed her blind ever since he had married her.

metaphor meaning "to gloss over or cover up vices, crimes or scandals or to exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data".

Synonyms:

plank, butter, blindfold, surface, recover, besmear, crape, aluminise, steel, carpet, envelop, bind, blacklead, paper, smother, surround, parcel, mask, board up, crepe, bread, sheet, spritz, coat, ice, mulch, foil, enwrap, dust, sheathe, cloak, laminate, plaster over, wrap, mound over, frost, wash, coif, drape, canvas, whiteout, white out, pall, concrete, roof, lime, daub, lag, aluminize, flake, hold, paint, bank, spread over, line, bedaub, straw, plank over, face, spread, clapboard, smear, paste, gravel, jacket, crown, enclose, cowl, blanket, apply, hood, veneer, feather, enfold, overlay, wrap up, block out, grass, bark, wax, felt, flash, put on, oil, grease, sod, plaster, canopy, turf, beplaster, stick on, wallpaper, tile, brush, spray, blinker,

Antonyms:

unmask, uncover, unextended, unprepared, clean,