The big promotion of that company's stock was just a cover-up to hide their impending bankruptcy.
Source: tatoeba (49127)
Cover-up
Synonyms for "cover-up" (36 found)
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Strong matches (10)
Related words (18)
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3 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 17 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ört-basdır noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Belarusian
2 entries- укрывальніцтва noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
- утойванне noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Czech
1 entries- ututlat noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Dutch
1 entries- wegmoffelen noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Finnish
3 entries- peittely noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
- piilottelu noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
- salailu noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
French
3 entries- dissimulation noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
- omerta noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
- étouffement noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Galician
1 entries- encubrimento noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
German
1 entries- Vertuschung noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Greek
1 entries- συγκάλυψη noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Icelandic
1 entries- yfirhylming noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Italian
3 entries- copertura noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
- insabbiamento noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
- occultamento noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Polish
1 entries- zatuszowanie noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Portuguese
1 entries- encobrimento noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Romanian
1 entries- mușamalizare noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Russian
2 entries- сокры́тие noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
- укрыва́тельство noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Swedish
2 entries- mörkläggning noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
- mörkning noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Ukrainian
2 entries- замо́вчування noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
- прихо́вування noun (attempt to conceal or disguise a wrongdoing or a mistake)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
This looks like another government cover-up.
Source: tatoeba (55365)
M-my goodness!? Cover-up! Cover yourself up!
Source: tatoeba (328830)
You should seriously consider a career as a tattoo cover-up artist.
Source: tatoeba (6479118)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.