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for, comprise, extend over, contain, embody, incorporate,
account for, take into account, take in, deal with: This report
covers our activities over the past year. 8 act, take
responsibility or charge, stand or sit in, substitute, take
over, run things, double: Go and get some coffee - I'll cover
for you. 9 traverse, complete, pass or travel over, travel,
cross: With frequent stops, we could not cover more than 50
miles a day. 10 compensate for, defray, be enough or sufficient
for, counter, offset, counterbalance, make up for, insure or
protect against: The policy covers losses of up to a million.
--n. 11 lid, top, cap, covering: I can't find the cover for
this pot. 12 binding, boards, wrapper, dust-jacket, jacket:
You can't tell a book by its cover. 13 Often, covers. blanket,
quilt, eiderdown, duvet, bedclothes, bedding, (bed) linen;
coverlet, counterpane; US comforter: I crept into bed and
pulled the covers over my head. 14 shelter, protection,
concealment, hiding-place, hide-out, retreat, refuge; hide, US
and Canadian blind; Colloq Brit hidey-hole: We tried to find
some sort of cover till the sun went down. 15 cloak, screen,
disguise, concealment, pretence, front, camouflage, smokescreen,
cover-up, mask, covering: His bluster and bullying were only a
cover for his cowardice.
coward n. poltroon, craven, dastard, sissy or cissy, baby, mouse,
milksop; Scaramouch or Scaramouche; Colloq chicken, Slang
yellow-belly; US and Canadian milquetoast: He's such a coward
that he's afraid of his own shadow.
cowardice n. cowardliness, chicken-heartedness, faint-heartedness,
timidity, timorousness, pusillanimity: Owing to the cowardice
of the lieutenant, the troop surrendered without a shot being
fired.
cowardly adj. timid, fearful, frightened, afraid, scared, faint-hearted,
timorous, chicken-hearted, chicken-livered, lily-livered,
white-livered, craven, namby-pamby, dastardly, pusillanimous,
vitelline, Slang yellow, yellow-bellied: The cowardly rascals
ran from the battle.
coy adj. shy, modest, diffident, demure, timid, bashful,
self-conscious, sheepish, timorous, unassuming, unpretentious;
reserved, self-effacing, retiring, evasive, reluctant,