Definition of "cover up" []

• To conceal or disguise. (verb)

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• "Baez, in his opening statement, told the jury that Caylee accidentally drowned and that Casey's father, George, helped Casey cover up the death to make it look like a homicide."
• "Sometimes I wanted to cover up the worst of it on my legs with long pants because I knew it looked nasty, and I kept wanting to bend and twist around to try to see how bad it looked, which was probably even weirder-looking than the red rash, but wearing long pants only irritated it more."
• "The local kids who know the true tourist attraction to be found at this site refer to it as “Crash Landing”—as if a UFO perhaps missile-guided by some combination of the KGB, CIA, and E.T. at the controls mistakenly fumbled onto this spot and destroyed it, then quickly constructed a Disney house on the lot to cover up the alien error."