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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. make visible;
- Example: "Summer brings out bright clothes"
- Example: "He brings out the best in her"
[syn: uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal]

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;
- Example: "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"
- Example: "The actress won't reveal how old she is"
- Example: "bring out the truth"
- Example: "he broke the news to her"
- Example: "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
[syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out]

3. disclose directly or through prophets;
- Example: "God rarely reveal his plans for Mankind"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reveal \Re*veal"\, n.
   1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.]
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   2. (Arch.) 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.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reveal \Re*veal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revealed; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Revealing.] [F. r['e]v['e]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.
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            Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown,
            She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
                                                  --Waller.
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   2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be
      known or discovered without divine or supernatural
      instruction or agency).
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   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. "Time, which reveals all things,
          is itself not to be discovered." --Locke. "A tragic
          history of facts divulged." --Wordsworth.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reveal
    v 1: make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He
         brings out the best in her" [syn: uncover, bring out,
         unveil, reveal]
    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; "The auction house would not disclose the price at
       which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how
       old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to
       her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn:
       unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal,
       discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let
       out]
    3: disclose directly or through prophets; "God rarely reveal his
       plans for Mankind"