Cover
Cover noun - A piece placed over an open container to hold in, protect, or conceal its contents.
Safety is a synonym for cover in hiding place topic. In some cases you can use "Safety" instead a noun "Cover".
Safety
Safety noun - The state of not being exposed to danger.
Usage example: we were lucky to make it to safety just as the lions broke loose from their cage at the zoo
Cover is a synonym for safety in shelter topic. You can use "Cover" instead a noun "Safety", if it concerns topics such as protection from harm.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- However, you figure it out with a glance, and your inherent morality compels you to risk your cover and safety to interfere and help another.
Source: Inconvenient Hippocratic Oath -
Later he hands a loaded pistol with the safety off to Ruby Rhod, who clearly is terrified of it, and tells him to cover a prisoner.
Source: Artistic License Gun Safety - But in doing so, Louis himself becomes a party to the fraud, and has to help cover it up for his own safety, so the weapon he used against Harvey and Jessica is now a danger to him.
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