"paper over" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Suggesting the use of wallpaper to cover defects on a wall.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "papers over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "papering over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "papered over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "papered over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "paper over (third-person singular simple present papers over, present participle papering over, simple past and past participle papered over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (over)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Paper",
          "orig": "en:Paper",
          "parents": [
            "Materials",
            "Manufacturing",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Patric Chovanec, at Bloomberg, China's Runaway Train is Running Out of Track",
          "text": "Runaway lending continues, bad debts mount even higher, and the need for more cash to paper over losses becomes that much more acute.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Wesley Widmaier, Economic Ideas in Political Time, page 151",
          "text": "While Volcker briefly submitted his resignation to Treasury Secretary Baker, a new vote would paper over immediate tensions – though Volcker's time as chair was numbered, going forward.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success."
      ],
      "id": "en-paper_over-en-verb-RfQ82Mux",
      "links": [
        [
          "superficial",
          "superficial"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ],
        [
          "defect",
          "defect"
        ],
        [
          "address",
          "address"
        ],
        [
          "veneer",
          "veneer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "under the carpet"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cover up"
        },
        {
          "word": "gloss over#English:_cover up, figuratively"
        },
        {
          "word": "whitewash"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "alt": "дело (delo)",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zamjatʹ",
          "sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
          "word": "замять"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "empapelar"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
          "word": "disipar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "paper over"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Suggesting the use of wallpaper to cover defects on a wall.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "papers over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "papering over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "papered over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "papered over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "paper over (third-person singular simple present papers over, present participle papering over, simple past and past participle papered over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "under the carpet"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (over)",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Paper"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Patric Chovanec, at Bloomberg, China's Runaway Train is Running Out of Track",
          "text": "Runaway lending continues, bad debts mount even higher, and the need for more cash to paper over losses becomes that much more acute.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Wesley Widmaier, Economic Ideas in Political Time, page 151",
          "text": "While Volcker briefly submitted his resignation to Treasury Secretary Baker, a new vote would paper over immediate tensions – though Volcker's time as chair was numbered, going forward.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "superficial",
          "superficial"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ],
        [
          "defect",
          "defect"
        ],
        [
          "address",
          "address"
        ],
        [
          "veneer",
          "veneer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative) To superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cover up"
        },
        {
          "word": "gloss over#English:_cover up, figuratively"
        },
        {
          "word": "whitewash"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "alt": "дело (delo)",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zamjatʹ",
      "sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
      "word": "замять"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "empapelar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success",
      "word": "disipar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paper over"
}