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Definition of Reveal
1. Verb. Make visible. "He brings out the best in her"
Generic synonyms: Show
Specialized synonyms: Disclose, Expose, Excavate, Unearth, Trot Out, Unfold
2. Verb. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret. "They reveal that there was a traffic accident "; "Unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
Specialized synonyms: Blackwash, Muckrake, Blow, Out, Come Out, Come Out Of The Closet, Out, Spring, Betray, Bewray, Confide, Leak, Babble, Babble Out, Blab, Blab Out, Let The Cat Out Of The Bag, Peach, Sing, Spill The Beans, Talk, Tattle
Causes: Break, Get Around, Get Out
Related verbs: Break, Get Around, Get Out
Generic synonyms: Tell
Derivative terms: Disclosure, Discovery, Divulgement, Divulgence, Expose, Exposure, Giveaway, Revealing, Revelation
3. Verb. Disclose directly or through prophets. "God rarely reveal his plans for Mankind"
Generic synonyms: Break, Bring Out, Disclose, Discover, Divulge, Expose, Give Away, Let On, Let Out, Unwrap
Derivative terms: Revelation, Revelation, Revelatory
Definition of Reveal
1. v. t. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
2. n. A revealing; a disclosure.
Definition of Reveal
1. Noun. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb. ¹
2. Noun. (context: cinematography) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reveal
1. to make known [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reveal
Literary usage of Reveal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1912)
"It is part of her beautiful nature that she did not reveal it to any of the many
suitors who had sought her hand. ..."
2. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by a Square, with Illustration by by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1899)
"... How the Stranger vainly endeavored to reveal to me in words the mysteries of
Spaceland. As soon as the sound of my Wife's retreating footsteps had died ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... answer a question which is put to him for the purposes of justice, on the
ground that his answer would reveal something that he had known in confession. ..."
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