cover up

See also: coverup and cover-up

English

Verb

cover up ‎(third-person singular simple present covers up, present participle covering up, simple past and past participle covered up)

1. (idiomatic) To conceal or disguise.

   The politician tried to cover up his involvement in the scandal.

Synonyms

• hide, conceal, forcover

Translations

to conceal or disguise

• French: cacher (fr), dissimuler (fr)
• German: vertuschen
• Maori: tauhuna

• Portuguese: encobrir (pt)
• Romanian: acoperi (ro), ascunde (ro)
• Spanish: encubrir (es)

See also

• cover-up