gloss over
Verb
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Verb
gloss over
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash.
- 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:
- Plausibility, I know, can only be unmasked by shewing the absurdities it glosses over, and the simple truths it involves with specious errors.
- They glossed over the problem, hoping that the customers wouldn't notice.
- 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:
- (transitive, idiomatic) To treat something with less care than it deserves; to ignore.
- This book only glosses over quantum mechanics, and doesn't go into detail.
- Russian: замалчивать
- Spanish: encubrir
- Russian: вкратце касаться
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