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nouna covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
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nouna flock of cootstype of:
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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:
Examples of covert
- "the brush provided a covert for game"
- "a woman covert"
- "covert actions by the CIA"
- "covert funding for the rebels"