Cover and Stuff

Cover

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

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

Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

Stuff

Stuff verb - To close up so that no empty spaces remain.

Cover and stuff are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cover" instead a verb "Stuff".

Nearby Words: stuffy, stuffed, stuffing, stuffiness

How words are described

old old cover old stuff
good good cover good stuff
best best cover best stuff
better better cover better stuff
Other adjectives: similar, standard, simple, heavy, actual, real, hard, blue, bad, black, white, new, red, awesome, creepy.

Common collocations

body cover body stuff body
amount cover amount stuff amount
parts cover parts stuff parts
rest cover rest stuff rest
Other words: hand, time, face, hair, mouth, head, planet, faces, ears.

Both words in one sentence

  • Naturally, the stuff they're debunking is basically always real; why cover it up when you can decry it?
  • Unobtainium Hell managed to steal a supply of the stuff and build his own robot with Super Alloy Z armor, but he wasn't able to completely cover it with the stuff.
    Source: Unobtainium
  • The original was a rather masculine song about destroying stuff and sleeping with women, while the female cover massively reworks the song to make it more feminine.
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