Revealing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Revealing	by the DICT Development Group
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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]
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.