Exact Match:
- covering
- the act of protecting something by covering it
- an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)
- a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"
Synonyms:
- assimilating,
- bigness,
- blanket,
- blanketing,
- border,
- brooding,
- burial,
- burying,
- calcimining,
- circumference,
- cloak,
- cloaking,
- clouding,
- coat,
- coating,
- collop,
- comprising,
- concealedness,
- concealing,
- concealment,
- containing,
- cortex,
- counting,
- cover,
- coverage,
- covering up,
- covert,
- covertness,
- coverture,
- cowl,
- cowling,
- crust,
- curtain,
- curtaining,
- custodial,
- cut,
- darkening,
- deal,
- deception,
- defensive,
- disk,
- drape,
- drapery,
- embracing,
- enameling,
- encircling,
- enclosing,
- encompassing,
- envelope,
- enveloping,
- envisaging,
- epidermis,
- exterior,
- external,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- feuille,
- film,
- flap,
- foil,
- fold,
- fostering,
- fresco,
- fringe,
- front,
- gestation,
- gilding,
- glazing,
- glossing,
- gravidity,
- gravidness,
- greatness,
- guardian,
- guarding,
- guise,
- hanging,
- heaviness,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hood,
- housing,
- immunizing,
- including,
- inclusive,
- incorporating,
- incubation,
- integument,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- japanning,
- lamella,
- lamina,
- laminated glass,
- laminated wood,
- lap,
- leaf,
- lineaments,
- mantle,
- mask,
- masking,
- membrane,
- mystification,
- nonrevealing,
- numbering,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- obscuring,
- occultation,
- outer face,
- outer layer,
- outer side,
- outer skin,
- outline,
- outside,
- painting,
- pall,
- pane,
- panel,
- parental,
- patina,
- peel,
- pellicle,
- periphery,
- plait,
- plank,
- plate,
- plating,
- ply,
- plywood,
- pregnancy,
- preventive,
- priming,
- prophylactic,
- protecting,
- protective,
- putting away,
- rasher,
- rind,
- safeguarding,
- safety glass,
- screen,
- screening,
- scum,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- shading,
- sheathing,
- sheet,
- shell,
- shellacking,
- shelter,
- sheltering,
- shield,
- shielding,
- shroud,
- shrouding,
- sitting,
- skin,
- slab,
- slat,
- slice,
- staining,
- stippling,
- subterfuge,
- superficies,
- superstratum,
- surface,
- table,
- tablet,
- the family way,
- top,
- tutelary,
- uncommunicativeness,
- undercoating,
- undisclosing,
- unrevealing,
- varnishing,
- veil,
- veiling,
- veneer,
- vestment,
- vigilant,
- wafer,
- watchful,
- whitewashing,
- wrapping