Unveil
[ʌn'veɪl] or [,ʌn'vel]
Definition
(verb.) remove the veil from; 'Women must not unveil themselves in public in Islamic societies'.
(verb.) remove the cover from; 'unveil a painting'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.
(v. i.) To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Disclose, uncover, expose, show.
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Definition
v.t. to remove a veil from: to disclose reveal.—v.i. to become unveiled to reveal one's self.—adv. Unveil′edly.—n. Unveil′er.
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Examples
- Fair is the night, but less fair than my lover absent; Unveil thyself from the jealous cloud-woof, And thou wilt see how fair is he I worship. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- At this period of the trial, the Grand Master commanded Rebecca to unveil herself. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The young man takes the girl his father selects for him, marries her, and after that she is unveiled, and he sees her for the first time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But more terrible, and far more obscure, was the unveiled course of my lone futurity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He died in 1872, a short time after he had unveiled a statue of Benjamin Franklin in New York’s Printing-house Square. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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