Cover up
Cover up verb - To keep from being publicly known.
Destroy
Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Both terms in one sentence
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Even when the mistake is fixed they still try to destroy the city and everyone in it to cover up this mistake.
- Destroy the Evidence: Esposito does this prior to the events of the game, to cover up the fact that he shot the Green Eyed Woman at Leder's house.
Source: Interactive Fiction / Lifeline - Good Is Not Soft: Pryvani Tarsuss is willing to cover up killings and her vast fortune to destroy her enemies — and it's suggested that she's done far worse.
Source: Literature / Titan Empire
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