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Meaning of COVERED

Pronunciation:  'kuvurd

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [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"
  2. [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
 
 Antonyms: uncovered
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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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