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Covert

  1. adjective

    secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed

    “covert actions by the CIA”

  2. noun

    a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

    “a screen of trees afforded privacy”

    Similar: screen, cover, concealment

  3. adjective

    (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband

    “a woman covert”

  4. noun

    a flock of coots

Word family

covertness · covertly

Words that mean the same

Secret and Concealed

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