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covered

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈkʌvə(ɹ)d//

Overlaid (with) or enclosed (within something).

adjective

  1. 1

    Overlaid (with) or enclosed (within something).

    The hilltops are all covered in snow.

    The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶

  2. 2

    figurativePrepared for, or having dealt with, some matter

    With my insurance, I am covered for earthquake damage.

  3. 3

    Than whom another player has more money available for betting.

    John has $100 on the table, while Jill only has $75. John has Jill covered.

  4. 4

    datedWearing one's hat.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of coversimple past and past participle of cover

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).