Meaning of COVERED
Pronunciation: | | 'kuvurd
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- [adj] overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"
- [adj] having the head and face covered; "the bride's veiled head"; "veiled Muslim women"
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| Synonyms: | | ariled, arillate, awninged, barnacled, beaded, beplastered, besmeared, bristling with(p), canopied, cloaked, clothed, crusted, crustlike, crusty, dabbled, daubed, draped, drenched, drenched in, encrusted, mantled, moon-splashed, moss-grown, mossy, mud-beplastered, muffled, overgrown, plastered, sealed, smothered, snow-clad, snow-covered, snowy, spattered, splashed, splashy, splattered, strewn, sun-drenched, thickspread, tiled, veiled, white, wrapped |
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| Antonyms: | | uncovered | |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Cov"ered\ (k?v"?rd), a.
Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.
{Covered way} (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top
of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose
slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrison an open line
of communication around the works, and a standing place
beyond the ditch. See Illust. of {Ravelin}.
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