Cover Up
How to Conjugate Cover Up
- Infinitive: Cover Up
- Present Tense: Cover Up/ Covers Up
- -ing Form: Covering Up
- Past Tense: Covered Up
- Past Participle: Covered Up
Cover Up is a separable phrasal verb and has 2 definitions.
Definitions of Cover Up:
1. To use something to conceal something else.
Examples: In Saudi Arabia, women must cover themselves up with a hijab.
Do you want something to cover up your legs with? It’s gotten chilly out here.
2. To hide the truth.
[Noun] {Cover-up} Refers to something you do to prevent others from knowing the truth.
Examples: He asked his friend to cover up for him in case his mom called while he wasn’t there.
Who are you covering up for?
The coffee house on the corner is a cover-up for the mafia.
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