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Reveal

verb

(past & past part. revealed; pres. part. revealing)

Make visible. Synonyms: bring out, uncover, unveil. "He brings out the best in her"

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret. Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, unwrap. "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"

Disclose directly or through prophets.

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"Reveal" Quotes from Famous Books

... some sort is negotiating with Mr. Adams.(213) Lord Cov(entry) dropped hints of a great deal which he knew of this matter, but could not reveal. No credit seemed to be given yesterday at dinner, either to his intelligence or credit with the new people, and he had a very dissatisfied look. Two of the Bedchamber are to be left, Lord Ailesford and ...

— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue

... just, object to registering his name, residence and the matters he is espousing, with the secretary of state, or some other authority designated by your body. If his activities be of such nature that he does not care to reveal them in the manner indicated, then the public interest is obviously endangered. It is no more than a prudent safeguard to have it known what influences are at work with respect to legislation. There ought to be no temporizing with ...

— The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox • Charles E. Morris

... has doubtless had the information since the hour of my departure. What can I do? I have thought of you; but how make you, who know nothing of Victor Mahr, understand anything in a message that would not reveal all to everyone who must aid in its transmission? That at least mustn't happen. I am praying every minute that she will go to you—you, who know and have tolerated me. I can't bear for her to know—I can't—it's killing me! My heart contracts and stops when ...

— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford

... at that hour! Faith sprang to the parlour door, she did not know how, and was in the dark hall. A little gleam of firelight followed her—a little faint dawn came through the fanlight of the door: just enough to reveal to Faith those very outlines which at first sight she had pronounced "pleasant." One more spring Faith made; with no scream of delight, but with a low exclamation, very low, that for its many-folded sweetness was like the involutions of ...

— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner

... far better situated toward Fra Angelico, enough of whose works have come down to us to reveal not only his quality as an artist, but his character as a man. Perfect certainty of purpose, utter devotion to his task, a sacramental earnestness in performing it, are what the quantity and quality of his work together proclaim. ...

— The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance - With An Index To Their Works • Bernhard Berenson

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