undercover

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who works undercover.
    — Then there's the heterosexual, open-mined ^([sic]) entourage who loves us dearly and are our best friends. They laugh at our humor and understand our sorrow. For they are rare and unique in prison. But the vipers always ruin things. They refer to our straight friends as "Closet-Cases," "Undercovers," and "Flip-Floppers."
动词 v.
  1. To provide too little coverage.
    — The estimates of bias reported here depend on the assumption that 6- to 14-year-olds were undercovered at the same rate as children 0 to 14 years old and that 16- to 17-year-olds were undercovered at the same rate as 16- to 19-year-olds.
形容词 adj.
  1. Performed or happening in secret.
  2. Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.

词形变化

more undercover comparative most undercover superlative undercovers plural undercovers present,singular,third-person undercovering participle,present undercovered participle,past undercovered past

词汇关系

近义词
clandestine
衍生词
undercover car
相关词
cloak-and-dagger

词源

词源 1
From under + cover.
词源 2
From under + cover.
词源 3
From under + cover.
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