REVEALS

Verb

reveals

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reveal

Noun

reveals

plural of reveal

Anagrams

• Leavers, laveers, leavers, several, vealers

Source: Wiktionary


REVEAL

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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