All cover up synonyms
covΒ·er up
C c verb cover up
- assume β If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
- age β Your age is the number of years that you have lived.
- pretend β to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
- garble β to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions.
- pussyfoot β to go or move in a stealthy or cautious manner.
- signify β to make known by signs, speech, or action.
- stonewall β to engage in stonewalling.
- pass β to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- shuffle β to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
- fence β a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- sidestep β to step to one side.
- waffle β waffling language.
- prevaricate β to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- lie β Jonas, 1880β1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
- fib β a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- flip-flop β Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
- tergiversate β to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- palter β to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
- cavil β If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary.
- hedge β a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
- shuck β a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- quibble β an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
noun cover up
- hideaway β a place to which a person can retreat for safety, privacy, relaxation, or seclusion; refuge: His hideaway is in the mountains.
- covering β A covering is a layer of something that protects or hides something else.
- privacy β the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- secretion β (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- obliteration β the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.
- cover-up β any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
- wraps β to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- occultation β Astronomy. the passage of one celestial body in front of another, thus hiding the other from view: applied especially to the moon's coming between an observer and a star or planet.
- laundromat β a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.; launderette.
- stratagem β a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
- cheat β When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
- catch β If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
- pretext β something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object; an ostensible reason; excuse: The leaders used the insults as a pretext to declare war.
- gimmick β an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
- story β a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- decoy β If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
- feint β a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
- bluff β A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
- device β A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
- snare β one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
- wrinkle β an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation: a new advertising wrinkle.
- hogwash β refuse given to hogs; swill.
- crock β A crock is a clay pot or jar.
- shift β to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
- ride β to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- fallacy β a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
- stall β a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
- malarkey β speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.