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Verb: gloss over  glós ow-vu(r)
  1. Treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
    - skate over, smooth over, slur over, skimp over
     
  2. Cover up a misdemeanour, fault, or error
    "She tried to gloss over her mistakes";
    - whitewash, sleek over, hush up

Derived forms: glossing over, glossed over, glosses over

See also: gloss

Type of: cover, cover up, do by, handle, treat

Nearest

Gloriosa superba
glorious
Glorious Revolution
gloriously
glory
glory fern
glory hole
glory lily
glory pea
gloss
gloss over
glossa
glossalgia
glossarial
glossarist
glossary
glossator
glossily
glossina
glossiness
Glossinidae