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nouna covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
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adjective(of a wife) being under the protection of her husband
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adjectivesecret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
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masked secret sub-rosa subterranean subterraneous surreptitious ulterior under-the-table undercover underground undisclosed unrevealed under wraps backstair backstairs behind-the-scenes black clandestine cloak-and-dagger cloaked collusive conniving disguised furtive hole-and-corner hugger-mugger hush-hushOpposite:
Definition that contains covert
- secret communicated covertly
- secret indulging only covertly
- covertly in a covert manner
- neutralisation (euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation)
- neutralization (euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation)
- black operation a covert operation not attributable to the organization carrying it out
- chukaku-ha an ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party; includes a covert action wing
- covertness the state of being covert and hidden
- hiddenness the state of being covert and hidden