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Another word for covert

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Adjective

  1. Existing or operating in a way so as to ensure complete concealment and confidentiality

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  2. Lying beyond what is obvious or avowed

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Noun

  1. Something that physically protects, especially from danger

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    safety

    attack

  2. A hiding place

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    show

    place

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Another word for covert

Modifier
  1. See also:

    secret

    secret

Noun

  1. A thicket

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    bush

    brush

  2. A shelter or hiding place

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    shelter

    sanctuary

    retreat

    refuge

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Sentence Examples

  • In the subsequent years Mantineia still found opportunity to give the Athenians covert help, and during the Corinthian War (394387) scarcely disguised its sympathy with the anti-Spartan league.

  • They generally associate in herds, and spend most of the day in covert on the banks, feeding in the evening and morning.

  • Take the covert at once, for my Girchik says the Ilagins are at Korniki with their hounds.

  • The oasis of the Otradnoe covert came in sight a few hundred yards off, the huntsmen were already nearing it.

  • This singular romance is diversified by, or, to speak more properly, it is the vehicle of the most bewildering abundance of digression, burlesque amplification, covert satire on things political, social and religious, miscellaneous erudition of the literary and scientific kind.

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