Cover and Open

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Cover

Cover verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
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Open is an antonym for cover in topics: wrap, protect.
Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

Open

Open verb - To change from a closed to an open position.
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Cover is an antonym for open in topics: clear, shut, begin.
Nearby Words: opening, openness, opened, opener
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Similar words of open

Common collocations

chest cover chest open chest
map cover map open map
mouth cover mouth open mouth
hole cover hole open hole
Other words: eyes.

Both words in one sentence

  • Contemptible Cover X Japan's album Vanishing Vision has (photoshopped but still awful) cover art of a woman with a slashed-open chest being raped.
    Source: Contemptible Cover
  • Leeroy Jenkins You're supposed to run ahead while he provides cover fire, but once you get to the end of the corridor, he runs out and stands still, in the open, to "cover" you.
    Source: Leeroy Jenkins
  • Film / Spectre Particularly noticeable since when Bond breaks cover he steps completely out into the open rather than lean out from behind cover.
    Source: Film / Spectre
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