Definitions for covert

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covert co·vert

Spelling: [adjective koh-vert, kuhv-ert; noun Covert is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in covert (ceortv).

Definitions for covert

noun

1. a covering; cover.
2. a shelter or hiding place.
3. concealment or disguise.
4. Hunting. a thicket giving shelter to wild animals or game.
5. Also called tectrix. Ornithology. one of the small feathers that cover the bases of the large feathers of the wings and tail.
6. covert cloth.

adjective

1. concealed; secret; disguised.
2. covered; sheltered.
3. Law. (of a wife) under the protection of one's husband.

Origin of covert

1275-1325; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French Latin coopertus, past participle of cooperīre to cover completely; see cover

Examples for covert

Bertignac was suspected of a covert satire on the authorities.

Most importantly, foreign policy should not be reduced to a synonym for military action and covert operations.

PARIS, France—What could be more cynical than a covert operation?

He shot her a covert glance—causelessly, for her naiveté was flawless.

After skirting the covert, she turned homewards by a pathway through the trees.

Syrian rebels have overtaken a joint Russian-Syrian secret facility that they claim was a covert intelligence collection base.

The remote controlled flying craft has gone from covert military ops to a communal backyard hobby.

There was covert insinuation of suspicion, albeit a kindly one, in the man's voice.

Tyler agreed that the covert nature of the LGBT scene at BYU has had its upshots.

Mr. Bentham discreetly ignored the covert threat in Wrayson's words.