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Another word for covert

covert Synonyms

covert

modif.

secret, clandestine, furtive; see secret 1, 2. See syn. study at secret.

covert Synonyms

covert

n.

A thicket
copse, underwood, bushes; see brush 4, bush 1.
A shelter or hiding place
shield, asylum, harbor; see refuge 1, retreat 2, sanctuary 2, shelter.

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Another word for covert

adjective

Existing or operating in a way so as to ensure complete concealment and confidentiality:
clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, huggermugger, secret, sub rosa, undercover. (Informal) hush-hush. Idiom: under wraps. See show
Lying beyond what is obvious or avowed:
buried, concealed, hidden, obscured, ulterior. Idiom: under cover (or wraps). See show

noun

Something that physically protects, especially from danger:
asylum, cover, harbor, haven, protection, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, shelter. See attack, safety
A hiding place:
den, hideaway, hide-out, lair. See place, show

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They generally associate in herds, and spend most of the day in covert on the banks, feeding in the evening and morning.
The oasis of the Otradnoe covert came in sight a few hundred yards off, the huntsmen were already nearing it.
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.
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.
Take the covert at once, for my Girchik says the Ilagins are at Korniki with their hounds.

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