'Reveal' definitions:
Definition of 'reveal'
(from WordNet)
verb
Make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings out the best in her" [syn: uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal]
verb
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]
verb
Disclose directly or through prophets; "God rarely reveal his plans for Mankind"
Definition of 'Reveal'
From: GCIDE
- Reveal \Re*veal"\, n.
- 1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reveal'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency). [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reveal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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