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forcover

forcover verb: to cover completely, cover over; to cover up, conceal.

Verb

forcover (third-person singular simple present forcovers, present participle forcovering, simple past and past participle forcovered)

  1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To cover completely, cover over; to cover up, conceal.
    • And she did about his hands little skins of kids, and she forcovered the nakedness of the neck, and gave the dish and took the loaves that she had baked.1879, Thomas Pownall Boultbee, A history of the Church of England: pre-Reformation period

Forms of forcover

third-person singular presentforcovers
present participleforcovering
past participleforcovered
pastforcovered

Origin of forcover

From Middle English forcoveren (“to cover, cover up”), equivalent to for- + cover.

Questions about forcover

What does forcover mean?
Forcover means to cover completely, cover over; to cover up, conceal.
What part of speech is forcover?
Forcover is a verb.
What is the past tense of forcover?
The past tense of forcover is forcovered.

Words near forcover in the dictionary

  1. forclosed
  2. forcloses
  3. forclosing
  4. forclosure
  5. forclosures
  6. forcover
  7. forcovered
  8. forcovering
  9. forcovers
  10. forcque
  11. forcques

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