[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"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
157 Moby Thesaurus words for "reveal":
affect, air, argue, bare, be indicative of, be significant of,
be symptomatic of, bespeak, betoken, betray, brandish, break it to,
break the news, break the seal, breathe, bring forth,
bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to light,
bring to notice, characterize, clear, come out with, communicate,
confide, confide to, connote, dangle, demonstrate, denominate,
denote, deobstruct, develop, differentiate, dig up, disclose,
discover, disinter, dismask, display, divulgate, divulge,
dramatize, draw the veil, embody, enact, entail, evidence, evince,
evulgate, excavate, exhibit, exhume, expose, expose to view,
express, ferret out, fish up, flaunt, flourish, free, give,
give evidence, give out, give sign, give token, give vent to,
highlight, hint, identify, illuminate, impart, incarnate, indicate,
involve, lay bare, lay open, leak out, let daylight in,
let get around, let in on, let on, let out, let slip, make clear,
make known, make plain, manifest, mark, materialize, mean, note,
open, open up, out with, parade, patefy, perform, present, produce,
publish, raise the curtain, represent, roll out, root up,
set forth, show, show forth, show up, signify, spotlight,
stand for, strip bare, suggest, symptomatize, symptomize, tell,
testify, token, trot out, turn up, unblock, uncase, unclench,
uncloak, unclog, unclutch, uncork, uncover, uncurtain, undo,
undrape, unearth, unfold, unfoul, unfurl, unkennel, unlatch,
unlock, unmask, unpack, unplug, unroll, unscreen, unseal,
unsheathe, unshroud, unshut, unstop, unveil, unwrap, utter, vent,
ventilate, wave, worm out