Synonyms for cover up
cov·er up

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1. cover-upverb

   concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public

2. cover, cover upverb

   hide from view or knowledge

   "The President covered the fact that he bugged the offices in the White House"

   Synonyms:
   brood, get over, embrace, plow, wrap up, enshroud, compensate, breed, encompass, overlay, continue, treat, hatch, incubate, report, track, extend, cut across, cut through, deal, shroud, underwrite, overcompensate, address, spread over, hide, traverse, pass over, comprehend, handle, cover, cross, get across, insure

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1. Glenn Youngkin:

   This is shocking, the Democrats are continuing to cover up a scandal of their own creation. The Democrat controlled parole board broke the law, put criminals ahead of victims, and tried to cover it all up. We will reform the parole board, expose those conspiring to hide this from public view, and stand up for victims rights.

2. Tom Fitton:

   This material shows that the IRS‘ cover-up began years ago, we now have smoking-gun proof that top officials in the Obama IRS unlawfully harassed taxpayers just to keep them from complaining to Congress about IRS‘ targeting and abuse. No wonder the Obama IRS has had such little interest in preserving or finding Lois Lerner’s emails.

3. Betty McCollum:

   Virginia Thomas’s involvement in the attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, and the subsequent efforts by Justice Thomas to cover up his wife’s actions, have rendered the associate justice ethically compromised and thus unfit to be a neutral arbiter of justice.

4. Mari Newman:

   It is past time for Denver to stop its pattern of delay and cover up, and to release the video and all of the evidence relating to its killing of Mr. Marshall.

5. Jamie Metzl:

   Then I believe what possibly happened was there was an accidental leak followed by a criminal cover-up.