(~s)
1.
A ~ is the top of a box or other container which can be removed or raised when you want to open the container.
= top
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2.
Your ~s are the pieces of skin which cover your eyes when you close them.
A dull pain began to throb behind his ~s.
= eye~
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3.
If you say that someone is keeping the ~ on an activity or a piece of information, you mean that they are restricting the activity or are keeping the information secret. (INFORMAL)
The soldiers’ presence seemed to keep a ~ on the violence...
Their finance ministry is still trying to put a ~ on the long-simmering securities scandal.
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