Covering
Covering noun - Something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth.
Maintaining and covering are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Maintaining" instead an adjective "Covering".
Maintaining
Covering and maintaining are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Covering" instead an adjective "Maintaining".
Both words in one sentence
- Inverted in Little Green Men, in which Majestic 12, rather than covering up abductions, actually stages them to drum up a belief in alien life, in order to justify maintaining spending for NASA.
Source: Fiction as Cover-Up -
At least one source covering the original myths (Bullfinch's?) had her sisters being hideous, but she herself maintaining her mortal beauty, presumably because Athena (jerk that she is) wanted it to be more ironic.
Source: Progressively Prettier
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Maintaining and Covering. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/covering/maintaining
Covering & Maintaining. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/covering/maintaining>.
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