Break and Cover

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Break verb - To cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly.

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Cover is an antonym for break in tell news topic.

Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Cover verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.

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Break is an antonym for cover.

Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

good	good break	good cover
high	high break	high cover
full	full break	full cover
best	best break	best cover
Other adjectives: complete, standard, fake, single, actual, entire, real, infamous, main, famous, new, final, temporary, last, red, instrumental.

nose	break nose	cover nose
hand	break hand	cover hand
time	break time	cover time
world	break world	cover world
Other words: game, story, back, legs, walls.

They have to break through several sealed doors to get where they're going, and carefully time every action to coincide with appropriate musical cover.

Source: Cacophony Cover-Up
Referenced in Mission: Impossible II: "The generators will cover the sound of Hunt's break in."

Source: Cacophony Cover-Up
Faith No More at a certain point decide to break the audience's expectations of a cover of "War Pigs" by launching instead into "Easy" (and a straight version!).

Source: Trolling Creator

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