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# coverest

verb, old form used with thou

«coverest» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

«coverest» means «you cover», a form of «cover»: To cover is to put something over another thing to hide or protect it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/coverest/#m1)

### Then and now

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou coverest» = «you cover».

### Examples

- Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself. (Torah DEU.22.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/coverest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you cover.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «coverest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/coverest/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«coverest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/coverest.html) on Mova free.