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| English Dictionary: revealing |
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| 2 results for revealing |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- revealing
- adj
- disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a
telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"
Synonym(s): revealing, telling, telltale(a)
- showing or making known; "her dress was scanty and revealing"
Antonym(s): concealing
- n
- the speech act of making something evident [syn:
disclosure, revelation, revealing]
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Reveal \Re*veal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Revealed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Revealing}.] [F. r[82]v[82]ler, 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.
Usage: 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. [bd]Time, which reveals all
things, is itself not to be discovered.[b8] --Locke.
[bd]A tragic history of facts divulged.[b8]
--Wordsworth.
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