Dictionary Entry
covert
covert is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, adjective, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
- 2transitive verb
Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
- 3transitive verb
Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.
- 4adjective
A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
- 5adjective
One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
- 6noun
a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
"a screen of trees afforded privacy"
"under cover of darkness"
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- 7noun
a flock of coots
- 8adjective
secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
"covert actions by the CIA"
"covert funding for the rebels"
- 9adjective
(of a wife) being under the protection of her husband
"a woman covert"
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