disclosure

Roget category 529

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.9. Modes of communication
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#529. Disclosure

noun

disclosure — retection^† — unveiling etc. v. — deterration^†, revealment, revelation — exposition, exposure — expose — whole truth — telltale etc. (news) 532.
acknowledgment, avowal — confession, confessional — shrift.
bursting of a bubble — denouement.
[person who discloses a secret] tattletale, snitch, fink, stool pigeon, canary.

verb

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, uncover, unseal, unkennel — take off the seal, break the seal — lay open, lay bare — expose — open, open up — bare, bring to light.
divulge, reveal, break — squeal [Coll.], tattle [Coll.], sing [Coll.], rat [Coll.], snitch [Coll.] — let into the secret — reveal the secrets of the prison house — tell etc. (inform) 527 — breathe, utter, blab, peach — let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag — betray — tell tales, come out of school — come out with — give vent, give utterance to — open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about — speak out etc. (make manifest) 525 — make public etc. 531 — unriddle etc. (find out) 480.1; split.
acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast — show one's hand, show one's cards — unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart — open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind [Fr.] — unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment — say the truth, speak the truth — turn King's evidence, Queen's evidence — acknowledge the corn [U.S.].
raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw off the mask — expose — lay open — undeceive^†, unbeguile^† — disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of — d_esillusionner.
be disclosed &c. — transpire, come to light — come in sight etc. (be visible) 446 — become known, escape the lips — come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out — show its face, show its colors — discover itself &c. — break through the clouds, flash on the mind.

adjective

disclosed etc. v. — open, public etc. 525.

interjection

out with it!,

phrase

the murder is out — a light breaks in upon one — the scales fall from one's eyes — the eyes are opened.

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

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