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cover one's feet

cover one's feet verb: to lower one’s garment, especially to urinate or defecate.

Verb

cover one's feet (third-person singular simple present covers one's feet, present participle covering one's feet, simple past and past participle covered one's feet)

  1. (euphemistic) To lower one’s garment, especially to urinate or defecate.
    • When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he covers his feet in his summer chamber. (Judges 3:24)
    • And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. (1 Samuel 24:3)

Forms of cover one's feet

third-person singular presentcovers one's feet
present participlecovering one's feet
past participlecovered one's feet
pastcovered one's feet

Questions about cover one's feet

What does cover one's feet mean?
Cover one's feet means to lower one’s garment, especially to urinate or defecate.
What part of speech is cover one's feet?
Cover one's feet is a verb.
What is the past tense of cover one's feet?
The past tense of cover one's feet is covered one's feet.

Words near cover one's feet in the dictionary

  1. cover names
  2. cover note
  3. cover notes
  4. cover one's back
  5. cover one's bases
  6. cover one's feet
  7. cover one's tracks
  8. cover oneself in glory
  9. cover oneself with glory
  10. cover page
  11. cover pages

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