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What does cover up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cover up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To conceal or disguise.
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If anything, the police were trying to cover up their own abusive practices.
He was trying very hard to cover up his nervousness with joviality and humor.
He was deeply involved in the attempt to whitewash and cover up the My Lai massacre.
The old respectability of the establishment could no longer cover up the major moral lapses of the financial sector.
Last night we heard a laundry list of new promises which I thought was an attempt to cover up old failures.
In order to cover up their own anti-democratic practices, they are sacrificing fundamental political rights.

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