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reveal
- /ɹɪˈviːl/ UK
- /ɹɪˈvil/ Canada, US
- /ɹɪˈviːl/ Australia
- [ɹɪˈvɪil] Australia
- /ɹəˈviːl/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -iːl
Where it comes from
From Middle English revēlen, from Old French reveler, from Latin revēlāre (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + vēlāre (“to cover”), from vēlum (“a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning, sail”) (whence also English veil, English unveil, English voile, Russian вуаль (vualʹ), Russian завуали́ровать (zavualírovatʹ, “to veil”) (compare typologically)).
Also compare typologically English uncloak, dismantle, divest, invest, unmask, Russian разобла́чать (razobláčatʹ) (akin to облаче́ние (oblačénije), срыва́ть покро́вы (sryvátʹ pokróvy) (покро́в (pokróv, “cover, covering”)).
noun reveals
- The outer side of a window or door frame. The building has a one-story rusticated limestone base and a canopied entrance with a doorman beneath an attractive, rusticated limestone window reveal on the second floor and a very impressive and ornate limestone window reveal on the third floor flanked by female figureshttps://www.cityrealty.com/
- A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden in the scene or story. The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.
verb reveals · revealing · revealed
- To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden or unknown. c. 1625, Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St Andero Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
- To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.
Similar: bare, bewray, betray, display, expose, find out, lay bare, luster, nake, open, reveal, show
