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Synonyms for undercover
ˌʌn dərˈkʌv ər, ˈʌn dərˌkʌv-un·der·cov·er
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undercoveradjective
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clandestineundercoveradjective
Performed or happening in secret.
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clandestineundercoveradjective
Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.
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clandestine
Princeton's WordNet
clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, undergroundadjective
conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
"clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "undercover":
covert, incognito, plain-clothes, secret, seepage, infiltration, clandestine, disguised
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2600 | secret | |
#17563 | covert | |
#19424 | undercover | |
#22401 | infiltration | |
#27892 | disguised | |
#33098 | clandestine | |
#45109 | incognito | |
#47328 | seepage |
How to use undercover in a sentence?
In visiting the salon I had gone to for three months, I thought I was going in for a cut and dry, i ended up escaping a life in which everyone treated me like a dog, thanks to the help of the undercover activists.
The Department of Health could rat them out by pretending to be a customer, but I have yet to see The Department of Health launch a single undercover investigation, the government prefers to keep its eyes half closed for fear of hurting Hong Kong's medical lab industry, which is big business.
The only way to truly understand what was going on in the jail was to implement innocent participants into the system to provide first-hand unbiased intelligence, these brave volunteers helped us identify critical issues within our system that undercover officers would not have been able to find. We couldn’t be more thrilled with the success of this inaugural program.
Our undercover agents killed two known drug peddlers in sting operations, there was a shootout between undercover police officers and drug peddlers when the men sensed they had sold 500 pesos ($10.80) worth of drugs to policemen.
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Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America.
Translations for undercover
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- heimlichGerman
- μυστικός, αφανής, κρυφός, μυστικός πράκτοραςGreek
- inkognitaEsperanto
- encubiertoSpanish
- vakoilu, salainenFinnish
- secret, agent secret, clandestinFrench
- अस्तरवालाHindi
- clandestinoItalian
- 覆面Japanese
- undercoverLatin
- under dekkeNorwegian
- tajnyPolish
- disfarçadoPortuguese
- hemligSwedish
- gizliTurkish
- אַנדערקאַווערYiddish
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