cover up
phrasal verbcover up | cover yourself up
- to put on clothes or more clothes
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cover something up
- to cover something completely so that it cannot be seen
- I hastily covered up the mess with a sheet.
- (disapproving) to try to stop people from knowing the truth about a mistake, a crime, etc. related noun cover-up