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uncover

verb

1 uncover

Remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body:
— Uncover your belly.

synonym: expose.

Roget 894: be courteous etc. adj.; show courtesy etc. n.. mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be all things to all men, conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do the amiable; ... show more

Roget 226: divest; uncover etc. (cover) etc. 223; denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe etc. (dress, enrobe) ... show more

Roget 260: open, ope, gape, yawn, bilge; fly open.    perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine etc. ... show more

2 uncover

Reveal to view as by removing a cover.

synonyms: disclose, expose.

3 uncover

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 newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings.

synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal ... show more.

Roget 529: disclose, discover, dismask; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, ... show more

Dutch: blootleggen, ontboezemen, onthullen, ontsluieren, openbaren, reveleren, uitgieten, uitstorten


Moby thesaurus: accost, address, bare, betray, bid good day, bid good morning, bow to, break the seal, bring to light, clear, curtsy, denudate, denude, deobstruct, develop, dig up, disclose, discover, disinter, dismask ... show more.

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