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COVERED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form

Example:

a covered balcony

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

snowy; white (marked by the presence of snow)

tiled (covered or furnished with tiles)

thickspread (covered thickly)

sun-drenched (covered with sunlight)

splashy (covered with patches of bright color)

snow-clad; snow-covered; snowy (covered with snow)

smothered (completely covered)

sealed (covered with a waterproof coating)

overgrown (covered with growing plants)

plastered; sealed ((of walls) covered with a coat of plaster)

peritrichous (covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella)

muffled (wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy)

mud-beplastered (covered with or as if with mud)

moss-grown; mossy (overgrown with moss)

moon-splashed (splashed or covered patchily with moonlight)

dust-covered; dusty (covered with a layer of dust)

drenched; drenched in (abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination)

dabbled; spattered; splashed; splattered (covered with bright patches (often used in combination))

crusted; crustlike; crusty; encrusted (having a hardened crust as a covering)

cloaked; clothed; draped; mantled; wrapped (covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak)

canopied (covered with or as with a canopy)

blanketed (covered with (or as if with) a blanket)

beaded (covered with beads of liquid)

awninged (covered with an awning)

ariled; arillate ((of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover)

Antonym:

bare (lacking its natural or customary covering)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb cover

Credits

 Context examples: 

Modern birds have beaks with no teeth and their bodies are covered in feathers.

(Aves, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of a fibrovascular core covered by mucinous epithelial cells.

(Cervical Mullerian Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

Themselves, they had covered twelve hundred miles with two days’ rest, and in the nature of reason and common justice they deserved an interval of loafing.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A tablet whose outer shell is covered with a substance.

(Coated Tablet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

My aunt withdrew her eyes from mine, as slowly as she had turned them upon me; and covered them thoughtfully with her hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The portion of the tooth covered by enamel.

(Crown, NCI Thesaurus)

The solid head is covered with a distinctive topknot.

(Dandie Dinmont Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

A capsule composed of small globular masses covered with an outer shell.

(Coated Pellet in Capsule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

For example, when less energy reaches the earth, temperature decreases and the area covered by snow increases.

(Climatic feedback mechanisms, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

A human papillomavirus-related cervical squamous cell carcinoma characterized by the presence of papillary structures covered with epithelial cells which show features of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

(Cervical Papillary Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)