Word Finder - covered

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To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

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He covered the baby with a blanket.

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To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

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The blanket covered the baby.

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To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

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Regular hexagons can cover the plane.

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To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

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You can cover the plane with regular hexagons.

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To put on one's hat.

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To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).

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The heroic soldier covered himself with glory.

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(of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.

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The magazine covers such diverse topics as politics, news from the world of science, and the economy.

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To deal with or include someone or something.

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To be enough money for.

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Ten dollars should cover lunch.

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To act as a replacement.

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I need to take off Tuesday. Can you cover for me?

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To have as an assignment or responsibility.

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Can you cover the morning shift tomorrow? I'll give you off next Monday instead.

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To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).

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(law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.

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To provide insurance coverage for.

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Does my policy cover accidental loss?

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To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).

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I would like to have my bitch covered next spring.

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• impregnate

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To protect or control (a piece or square).

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In order to checkmate a king on the side of the board, the five squares adjacent to the king must all be covered.

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To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

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To defend a particular player or area.

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Overlaid (with) or enclosed (within something).

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Prepared for, or having dealt with, some matter

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With my insurance, I am covered for earthquake damage.

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Than whom another player has more money available for betting.

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John has $100 on the table, while Jill only has $75. John has Jill covered.

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Wearing one's hat.

Snow covered his hair, and his skin was cold.

A lock of mousy blonde hair covered her left eye.

He was hot and covered with dust.

He was driving toward Pierre in a covered gig, sitting beside a young surgeon, and on recognizing Pierre he told the Cossack who occupied the driver's seat to pull up.

Carmen covered her mouth with her hands.

Sofia covered the speaker.

Don't come in, Papa! she cried to her father as he opened the door--speaking from under the filmy skirt which still covered her whole face.

There is a piazza in front, covered with vines that grow so luxuriantly that you have to part them to see the garden beyond.

Zakhar held back his horses and turned his face, which was already covered with hoarfrost to his eyebrows.

Sweat soon covered her, and her chest began to tighten.

Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers' or company's baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on all sides, moved across the bridge.

The countess finished her prayers and came to the bed with a stern face, but seeing, that Natasha's head was covered, she smiled in her kind, weak way.

The wooden banisters were polished to a high finish, and the hardwood stairs were covered on the walkway with more carpet.

It was completely covered with vines, climbing roses and honeysuckles.

After I had recovered from my first experience in the water, I thought it great fun to sit on a big rock in my bathing-suit and feel wave after wave dash against the rock, sending up a shower of spray which quite covered me.

Sunday morning the ground was covered, and Helen and the cook's children and I played snowball.

The earth is all alive and covered with papillae.

Round a long table covered with black sat some twelve men in garments like those he had already seen.

His lips covered hers in a long warm kiss that left her short of breath.

Dulce's eyes were bloodshot and her cheeks were covered with tears.

The bottom was solid rock covered with fine sand.

The large bed was set in a similar stone bed frame and covered with dark coverings.

I finally succeeded in getting her on the bed and covered her up, and she lay curled up as near the edge of the bed as possible.

The sulphur-like pollen of the pitch pine soon covered the pond and the stones and rotten wood along the shore, so that you could have collected a barrelful.

It's hard to tell exactly what happened, because the storm covered any tracks.

A minute later the old man's large stout figure in full-dress uniform, his chest covered with orders and a scarf drawn round his stomach, waddled out into the porch.

He covered her hand with his.

She covered her eyes with one forearm and succumbed to tears.

In response to Molly's questions about covered bridges, we drove through two more in the area for her pleasure.

He lifted her and carried her to her bedroom, finding a spot on the bed that had avoided being shredded or covered with junk from her dressers.

Its wooden legs moved so fast that their twinkling could scarcely be seen, and although so much smaller than the cab-horse it covered the ground much faster.

It was called "Ivy Green" because the house and the surrounding trees and fences were covered with beautiful English ivy.

Standing before the mirror, as I had seen others do, I anointed mine head with oil and covered my face thickly with powder.

She was covered with dirt – the remains of mud pies I had compelled her to eat, although she had never shown any special liking for them.

The opening was filled with ferns which completely covered the beds of limestone and in places hid the streams.

The hammock was covered with pine needles, for it had not been used while my teacher was away.

The sun knows that you like to see the world covered with beautiful white snow and so he kept back all his brightness, and let the little crystals form in the sky.

I clapped my chubby hands for joy when I saw that the rose-bushes were covered with lovely buds.

But his most wonderful work is the painting of the trees, which look, after his task is done, as if they were covered with the brightest layers of gold and rubies; and are beautiful enough to comfort us for the flight of summer.

The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former....

Perhaps on that spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle spring rain accompanied with mist and a southerly wind, and covered with myriads of ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall, when still such pure lakes sufficed them.

Ay, every leaf and twig and stone and cobweb sparkles now at mid-afternoon as when covered with dew in a spring morning.

The snow had already covered the ground since the 25th of November, and surrounded me suddenly with the scenery of winter.

Farther down the hill, on the left, on the old road in the woods, are marks of some homestead of the Stratton family; whose orchard once covered all the slope of Brister's Hill, but was long since killed out by pitch pines, excepting a few stumps, whose old roots furnish still the wild stocks of many a thrifty village tree.

Sometimes the well dent is visible, where once a spring oozed; now dry and tearless grass; or it was covered deep--not to be discovered till some late day--with a flat stone under the sod, when the last of the race departed.

When I crossed Flint's Pond, after it was covered with snow, though I had often paddled about and skated over it, it was so unexpectedly wide and so strange that I could think of nothing but Baffin's Bay.

It is frequently covered up by drifts, and, it is said, "sometimes plunges from on wing into the soft snow, where it remains concealed for a day or two."

A hunter told me that he once saw a fox pursued by hounds burst out on to Walden when the ice was covered with shallow puddles, run part way across, and then return to the same shore.

She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with varnish.

Among them were grooms leading the Tsar's beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered cloths.