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give cover
verb as in shield
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These give cover to hordes of brigands, who prey upon travellers and merchants, robbing and killing indifferently.
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All trees and bushes and walls and buildings that would give cover to the enemy the Browns had razed.
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Modern trenches are intended to give cover from fire and from view.
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Still less is it intended to give cover to any aggression by one New World power at the expense of any other.
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Anything rigid in form and movable may be used to give cover from view and fire and to obstruct the advance of an assailant.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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