Cover and Keep

Cover

Cover verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

Usage example: covered the wounded soldier until he could be rescued from the downed chopper

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Keep and cover are semantically related in protect topic. In some cases you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Cover".

Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

Keep verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

Usage example: may God bless and keep you

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Cover and keep are semantically related in protect topic. Sometimes you can use "Cover" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

old	old cover	old keep
good	good cover	good keep
full	full cover	full keep
best	best cover	best keep
Other adjectives: better, perfect, complete, original, straight, single, actual, black, dark, main, nearby, creepy.

body	cover body	keep body
eye	cover eye	keep eye
time	cover time	keep time
fact	cover fact	keep fact
Other words: face, characters, world, game, story, distance, hair, mouth, head, hands, eyes.

While he doesn't like Hueco Mundo or his supposed allies, his efforts to preserve his cover and keep himself alive are gradually turning him into what he's pretending to be.

Source: Fan Fic / Winter War
In The Squad by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, the cheerleaders are the members of a Junior CIA group and flaunt ditziness and/or bitchiness as an act to maintain their cover and keep people from probing them too closely.

Source: Pom Pom Girl
After pulling the plug on the plan to kill L, Light (with the help of Rem) must scramble to cover his tracks, protect Misa, and keep clinching proof that he is Kira just out of reach...

Source: Fanfic Recs / Death Note For Want Of A Nail Fics

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