Disclose
[dɪs'kləʊz] or [dɪs'kloz]
Definition
(verb.) disclose to view as by removing a cover; 'The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set'.
Edited by Enrico--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
(v. t.) To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.
(v. t.) To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.
(v. t.) To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.
(n.) Disclosure.
Edited by Jimmy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1].Uncover, expose, bring to view, bring to light.[2].Reveal, divulge, show, unfold, unvail, tell, utter, betray, communicate, lay open, make known.
Editor: Olivia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Discover, reveal, confess, detect, divulge, make_known, promulgate
ANT:Cover, conceal, lock, suppress
Typist: Lycurgus
Definition
v.t. to unclose: to open: to lay open: to bring to light: to reveal.—n. Disclō′sure act of disclosing: a bringing to light or revealing: that which is disclosed or revealed.
Typist: Pansy
Examples
- He said the countenance could disclose what was passing in the heart plainer than the tongue could. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Soured and listless, Miss Fanshawe was beginning to disclose the causes of her prostrate condition. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He drew nearer, bending close as if his eyes would disclose whatever there was. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- United States patents No. 600,826 and No. 600,827, of May 15, 1898, disclose this process. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Do his words disclose the length, breadth, depth, of his object and suspicion in coming here; or if not, what do they hide? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It devolved on me to disclose our plan to Idris. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I had tutored myself, and was resolved by no outward sign to disclose my internal agitation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When the scandal about her husband was disclosed they remarked of her--Ah, poor woman! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Without it I must have disclosed myself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I was very close to him and spoke in a low whisper that my knowledge of their secret might not be disclosed to our tormentors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Still in the same moment, I saw that the face disclosed, was the face of the other convict of long ago. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As the sun rose on the second day of our flight it disclosed the pursuing horde not a half-mile in our rear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the M?le, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The first _fire proof safe_ is disclosed in the British patent to Richard Scott, No. 2,477, of 1801. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He took his hat off, and did as he was bid, disclosing only a narrow slip of court-plaster. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I promise to leave you at liberty in one quarter of an hour; nor will I insist on your disclosing your name, and I promise you shall not know mine. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He snatched off the dark beard which had disguised him and threw it on the ground, disclosing a long, sallow, clean-shaven face below it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- At the same instant the sun shot above the horizon, disclosing a hundred grim, black faces peering over the stern of the battleship upon us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He left here,' said Traddles, 'with his mother, who had been clamouring, and beseeching, and disclosing, the whole time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Here was another of the marked peculiarities in her character disclosing itself to me without reserve. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- By this time she had taken him to the back door, which was open, disclosing a path leading down the garden. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When that person discloses, it will not be necessary for me to know anything about it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- When that person discloses, said Mr. Jaggers, straightening himself, you and that person will settle your own affairs. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Her beauty grew as a rose, which, opening to the summer wind, discloses leaf after leaf till the sense aches with its excess of loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There is no history, rock-record, or other evidence of his existence as man, which discloses a period when he was not an inventor. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When that person discloses, my part in this business will cease and determine. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Heaven's light, following her exile, pierces its confinesand discloses their forlorn remoteness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The secret which that confession discloses should be told with little effort, for it has indirectly escaped me already. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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