Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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vb. To cover again.
Usage examples of "re-cover".
Many cases could be given of the lower beds of a formation having been upraised, denuded, submerged, and then re-covered by the upper beds of the same formation,--facts, showing what wide, yet easily overlooked, intervals have occurred in its accumulation.
Thinking it was a fluke I re-covered the meat loaf with another piece of foil and the same thing happened.
Then he carefully re-covered it, arranging the earth as neatly as had the blacks.
He would never remember to have his umbrella re-covered, or to ask the price of anything before he bought it.
Many cases could be given of the lower beds of a formation having been upraised, denuded, submerged, and then re-covered by the upper beds of the same formation, -- facts, showing what wide, yet easily overlooked, intervals have occurred in its accumulation.
But then, as Kris reminded him, his sons had had a very tough time for a few years and were probably still re-covering from the "trauma.