Cover and Delete

Cover

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

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Delete and cover are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Delete" instead a verb "Cover".

Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

Delete verb - To show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it.

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Cover and delete are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cover" instead a verb "Delete".

Nearby Words: deletion, deleted, deleting, deleter

If you decide to kill her instead of Lebedev, you get an entirely new cutscene, where Lebedev informs JC that his parents were lab technicians, Alex will delete the audio transcripts of the prior few minutes and JC ends up lying to Gunther to cover his whereabouts during the shooting.

Source: Developers Foresight / Deus Ex
In Noob, this is explictly the situation of Amaras in regards to Fantöm until it turns out that Fantöm had been unknowingly getting an illegal boost from the game creators and the creators delete Fantöm's avatar in an attempt to cover their tracks and make Fantöm's player the scapegoat.

Source: Always Second Best
Revealing Cover Up: As pointed out in the novel version of the franchise-wide event, it looks a little suspicious for Donteuil and Judge Dead to delete Fantöm's avatar the second he was accused of cheating and pin everything on him.

Source: Franchise / Noob

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