Uncover

//ʌnˈkʌvɚ// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove a cover from.

    "The model railway was uncovered."

  2. 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. 3
    To reveal the identity of.

    "The murderer has finally been uncovered."

  4. 4
    remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body wordnet
  5. 5
    To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.

    "To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation."

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  1. 6
    reveal to view as by removing a cover wordnet
  2. 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."

  3. 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."

  4. 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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