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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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All these people their fake, their smiles and laughs were all pretend, just an act to cover up reality.
This is a deliberate tactic to cover up the cheaper prices of my bus trips.
He was deeply involved in the attempt to whitewash and cover up the My Lai massacre.
A big seller was stove black, used to cover up scrapes and rust on cast-iron furnaces.
The woman is trying to cover up her failing marriage by uttering jingoistic exultations in the midst of other people.
Why does the department cover up for the chief assassin of its officers thirty years after the fact?

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