REVEAL

unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out, uncover

(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; “The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold”; “The actress won’t reveal how old she is”; “bring out the truth”; “he broke the news to her”; “unwrap the evidence in the murder case”; “The newspaper uncovered the President’s illegal dealings”

reveal

(verb) disclose directly or through prophets; “God rarely reveal his plans for Mankind”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

reveal (plural reveals)

The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.

(cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.

(chiefly, UK, Australia, NZ, obsolete in the US) 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.

Synonyms

• (side of a window or door opening): revel

• (side of a window or door opening): jamb

Verb

reveal (third-person singular simple present reveals, present participle revealing, simple past and past participle revealed)

(transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.

(transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.

Synonyms

• (to show): uncover, unfold, unveil; see also reveal

• (communicate): disclose, divulge; see also divulge

Anagrams

• Leaver, laveer, leaver, vealer

Source: Wiktionary

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Re*veal", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Revealing.] Etym: [F. révéler, L. revelare, revelatum, to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum a veil. See Veil.]

1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller.

2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).

Syn.

– To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show. See Communicate.

– Reveal, Divulge. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. "Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered." Locke. "A tragic history of facts divulged." Wordsworth.

Re*veal", n.

1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.]

2. (Arch.)

Definition: 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. [Written also revel.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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