OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 30232

gloss over

Meanings (ES + gloss)
encubrir • ocultar
To cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash.
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.
dejar pasar por alto • pasar por alto • restar importancia
To treat something with less care than it in some ways deserves; to ignore, or at least to discount or dismiss for the current purposes.
This book only glosses over quantum mechanics, and doesn't go into detail.
We glossed over the petty small talk and got directly into the problem.
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