Antonyms for take cover


Grammar : Verb
Spell : kuhv-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌv ər


Definition of take cover

Origin :
  • mid-12c., from Old French covrir (12c., Modern French couvrir) "to cover, protect, conceal, dissemble," from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperire "to cover over, overwhelm, bury," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + operire "to close, cover" (see weir). Related: Covered; covering. Military sense is from 1680s; newspaper sense first recorded 1893; use in football dates from 1907. Betting sense is 1857. OF horses, as a euphemism for "copulate" it dates from 1530s. Covered wagon attested from 1745.
  • As in stash : verb hide
  • As in hide : verb conceal; remain unseen
Example sentences :
  • I slipped down to the water to urge him to come ashore and take cover.
  • Extract from : « A Virginia Scout » by Hugh Pendexter
  • This was a storage hold, but he didn't dare to move, even to take cover.
  • Extract from : « Gold in the Sky » by Alan Edward Nourse
  • All the bird demands is a thicket or hedgerow in which it can take cover when disturbed.
  • Extract from : « Jungle Folk » by Douglas Dewar
  • Our soldiers certainly have learnt, at last, how to take cover.
  • Extract from : « An Autobiography » by Elizabeth Butler
  • The land-birds in winter you hardly see, for they take cover.
  • Extract from : « Unexplored Spain » by Abel Chapman
  • “He is signalling us to take cover,” continued the risaldar.
  • Extract from : « The Disputed V.C. » by Frederick P. Gibbon
  • There's an old cement Hun gun-pit to the right; you take cover in it.
  • Extract from : « The Glory of the Trenches » by Coningsby Dawson
  • Once I had to drop into a shell-hole to take cover from machine-gun fire.
  • Extract from : « The Irish on the Somme » by Michael MacDonagh
  • He was headed for the ride, for the rear entrance, where he knew he could take cover.
  • Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow
  • But the line was thin-sown when they spread out to take cover.
  • Extract from : « A Tatter of Scarlet » by S. R. Crockett

Synonyms for take cover

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