English-Spanish translations for gloss over

• encubrir
  Toda posible disposición a encubrir ciertos aspectos de la verdad mediante la aprobación de textos imprecisos cuya redacción dé lugar a interpretaciones ambiguas no puede tolerarse. Any possible willingness to gloss over certain aspects of the truth by adopting vague texts whose wording is open to ambiguous interpretation cannot be tolerated.
  encubrir el hecho de que el aislamiento de la comunidad turochipriota tiene su causa y origen únicamente en la ocupación militar ilegal turca del 37 % del territorio de la República de Chipre; to gloss over the fact that the Turkish Cypriot community's isolation is solely caused by the illegal Turkish military occupation of 37% of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus;

Definition of gloss over

• To cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash
• To treat something with less care than it deserves; to ignore

Examples

• They glossed over the problem, hoping that the customers wouldnt notice.
• This book only glosses over quantum mechanics, and doesnt go into detail.

Related words

• gloss
• bugloss
• glossitis
• glossy
• glossary
• glossator
• diglossia
• glossing
• isogloss
• Panglossian