put over
[verb]
Synonyms: defer, delay, hold off, hold over, hold up, lay over, postpone, put off, shelve, stand over

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English Thesaurus: cover, put something over something, wrap, envelop, be shrouded in mist/darkness/smoke etc, ...

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put something ↔ over phrasal verb (see also put)

1. British English to succeed in telling other people your ideas, opinions, feelings etc:
The advert puts over the message clearly and simply: nuclear power is clean.

2. put one/something over on somebody informal to deceive someone into believing something that is not true or that is useless:
Nobody could put one over on him.

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cover (also cover up) to put something over, on, or around something else, to hide it, protect it, or improve its appearance:
Cover the dough, and leave it to rise.
She wears a lot of make-up to cover her spots.
put something over something to put a cloth, blanket etc loosely over the top of something in order to cover it:
They gave him a blanket to put over his legs.
wrap (also wrap up) to put paper, plastic, cloth etc tightly around something in order to protect, decorate, or post it:
I haven’t wrapped her birthday present yet.
envelop literary to surround something completely so that it is difficult to see – used especially about darkness, smoke, and clouds:
At sunset, darkness enveloped the town.
be shrouded in mist/darkness/smoke etc literary to be covered and hidden in mist, smoke etc:
The mountains were shrouded in mist.
the front/back cover
The price of the book is on the back cover.
a hard/soft cover
I never buy books in hard cover – they’re much more expensive.
a book/magazine cover
There was a blonde girl on the magazine cover.
a cover story (=the main story on the front of a newspaper or magazine)
Last month’s cover story was entitled ‘Your Child’s Brain’.
a cover photo/shot (=picture on the front cover)
The picture became the July 4th cover shot.
a cover design
the cover design of the Christmas issue
a cover girl (=an attractive girl whose photo is on the front cover)
She had always liked the idea of being a cover girl.
read something from cover to cover (=read a book, magazine etc very thoroughly)
He read it from cover to cover in less than three hours.
covering a layer of something, or a sheet of something, that covers something else:
There was light covering of snow on the ground.
The hard shell acts as a protective covering.
the cloth coverings on the altar
lid a cover for a container such as a pan or a box:
the lid of the box
a saucepan lid
top/cap the thing that you put on top of a bottle, tube, or pen, in order to prevent the liquid or other things inside from coming out:
I can’t find the cap for the pen.
Put the top back on the milk!
the cap that goes on the toothpaste
cork the top part that you put on top of a bottle of wine:
Can you take off the cork for me?
wrapping (also wrap especially American English) a sheet of paper, plastic etc that is put around something in order to cover or protect it:
John tore the wrapping off his presents.
The lamp was still in its wrapping.
wrapper a piece of paper or plastic that is put around something you buy, especially a small object:
Put the candy wrappers in your pocket.
He took the drinking straw out of its wrapper.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

put over
v.
1. To wait to a later time; postpone.
They put over the meeting to the following Tuesday.
Synonym: PUT OFF.
2. informal To make a success of; complete.
He put over a complex and difficult business deal.
Synonym: BRING OFF, PUT ACROSS, SLIP OVER.
3. informal To practice deception; trick; fool.
■ Used with "on".
George thought he was putting something over on the teacher when he said he was absent the day before because his mother was sick and needed him.
Tom really slipped one over on us when he came to the Halloween party dressed as a witch.

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