covered
overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form
How often you will meet it
Rank 825 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 22,000 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form women with covered facescovered wagons
covered in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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She covered her chairs with Turkey-red cotton, frilling them round the seats.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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The man's face, at first glance, appeared to be covered with hair.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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She was found mangled beyond recognition, covered with leaves and brush as above mentioned.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · Chapter 1
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They knew that the cold manner of the great engineer covered depths, but they never expected to see the depths uncovered.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1