Antonyms for take cover
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kuhv-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌv ər |
Definition of take cover
Origin :- mid-12c., from Old French covrir (12c., Modern French couvrir) "to cover, protect, conceal, dissemble," from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperire "to cover over, overwhelm, bury," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + operire "to close, cover" (see weir). Related: Covered; covering. Military sense is from 1680s; newspaper sense first recorded 1893; use in football dates from 1907. Betting sense is 1857. OF horses, as a euphemism for "copulate" it dates from 1530s. Covered wagon attested from 1745.
- As in stash : verb hide
- As in hide : verb conceal; remain unseen
- I slipped down to the water to urge him to come ashore and take cover.
- Extract from : « A Virginia Scout » by Hugh Pendexter
- This was a storage hold, but he didn't dare to move, even to take cover.
- Extract from : « Gold in the Sky » by Alan Edward Nourse
- All the bird demands is a thicket or hedgerow in which it can take cover when disturbed.
- Extract from : « Jungle Folk » by Douglas Dewar
- Our soldiers certainly have learnt, at last, how to take cover.
- Extract from : « An Autobiography » by Elizabeth Butler
- The land-birds in winter you hardly see, for they take cover.
- Extract from : « Unexplored Spain » by Abel Chapman
- “He is signalling us to take cover,” continued the risaldar.
- Extract from : « The Disputed V.C. » by Frederick P. Gibbon
- There's an old cement Hun gun-pit to the right; you take cover in it.
- Extract from : « The Glory of the Trenches » by Coningsby Dawson
- Once I had to drop into a shell-hole to take cover from machine-gun fire.
- Extract from : « The Irish on the Somme » by Michael MacDonagh
- He was headed for the ride, for the rear entrance, where he knew he could take cover.
- Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow
- But the line was thin-sown when they spread out to take cover.
- Extract from : « A Tatter of Scarlet » by S. R. Crockett
Synonyms for take cover
- adumbrate
- blot out
- bury
- cache
- camouflage
- cloak
- conceal
- cover
- curtain
- disguise
- dissemble
- ditch
- duck
- eclipse
- ensconce
- go into hiding
- go underground
- harbor
- hold back
- hole up
- hush up
- keep from
- keep secret
- lie low
- lock up
- mask
- not give away
- not tell
- obscure
- occult
- plant
- protect
- put out of the way
- reserve
- salt away
- screen
- secrete
- shadow
- shelter
- shield
- shroud
- smuggle
- squirrel
- stash
- stifle
- stow away
- suppress
- take cover
- tuck away
- veil
- withhold
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