Cover and Excuse

Cover

Cover noun - A piece placed over an open container to hold in, protect, or conceal its contents.

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Excuse and cover are semantically related In some cases you can use "Excuse" instead the word "Cover" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

Excuse

Excuse noun - An explanation that frees one from fault or blame.

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Synonyms for Excuse

Antonyms for Excuse

Cover and excuse are semantically related in reason topic. Sometimes you can use "Cover" instead the word "Excuse" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as forgive.

Nearby Words: excusing, excused, excusable

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

old	old cover	old excuse
good	good cover	good excuse
best	best cover	best excuse
elaborate	elaborate cover	elaborate excuse
Other adjectives: better, similar, perfect, solid, standard, convenient, simple, popular, actual, real, bad, excellent, main, decent, new, official, last, different.

Common collocations

part	cover part	excuse part
rest	cover rest	excuse rest
time	cover time	excuse time
fact	cover fact	excuse fact
Other words: head, debts.

Both words in one sentence

Most of them die of natural causes while being under his care, but this only provides a convenient cover/excuse when he does deliberately murder his patients.

Source: Literature / Cards on the Table
Morgan once used his magic to contact his aide-de-camp during a religious service, and used fasting as a cover/excuse when he fainted from the effort.

Source: Literature / Deryni
Only Sane Man: Ana DeLusia and Maury Lykes are two of the only people around Cherry with perspective on her self-destructiveness, as opposed to most of the others who only enable, excuse and cover up her excesses.

Source: Literature / Star Island

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