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Uncover
//ʌnˈkʌvɚ// verb
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Verb
- 1 To remove a cover from.
"The model railway was uncovered."
- 2 make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret wordnet
- 3 To reveal the identity of.
"The murderer has finally been uncovered."
- 4 remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body wordnet
- 5 To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
"To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation."
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- 6 reveal to view as by removing a cover wordnet
- 7 To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect. intransitive, reflexive
"Alfred, surprised to meet his father, whom he thought absent from home, […] stood, holding his firelock in one hand, and his hat in the other, having uncovered himself as soon as he perceived his father."
- 8 To expose the genitalia. intransitive, reflexive
"The phallus had power to subdue the attacks of demons and the Evil Eye; and the female organs were potent over elemental disturbances, thus a woman uncovering herself could quell a storm."
- 9 To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English uncoveren, equivalent to un- + cover.
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