cover (provide, covering, cause)

Definition:

to provide with a covering or cause to be covered

Class:

contact verb

Usage:

transitive

Past tense:

covered

Present participle:

covering

3rd-person, singular, present:

covers

Similar to:

cover | overlay

Follows:

bury | smother | smother | tar and feather | veil

Original source:

WordNet

Examples:

aluminize | bank | bark | bedaub | bind | blacklead | blanket | blindfold | blinker | board up | bread | brush | butter | canopy | canvass | carpet | carpet | clapboard | cloak | coat | coif | concrete | cowl | crape | crown | daub | drape | dust | envelop | face | feather | felt | flake | flash | foil | frost | frost | frost | gravel | grease | hold | hood | jacket | lag | laminate | lime | line | mask | mask | mask | mound over | mulch | oil | paint | pall | paper | parcel | paste | plank | plaster | plaster | plaster | put on | recover | roof | sheathe | sheet | smother | sod | spray | spread | spritz | steel | straw | tile | turf | veneer | wallpaper | wash | wax | whiteout | wrap

Usage examples:

• cover the grave with flowers
• cover the child with a blanket
• cover her face with a handkerchief