uncover
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uncover
- /ʌnˈkʌvɚ/ US
- /ʌnˈkʌvə(ɹ)/ UK
Rhymes with -ʌvə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English uncoveren, equivalent to un- + cover.
verb uncovers · uncovering · uncovered
- To remove a cover from. The model railway was uncovered.
- To reveal the identity of. The murderer has finally been uncovered.
- To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.
- To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect. Alfred, surprised to meet his father, whom he thought absent from home, […] stood, holding his firelock in one hand, and his hat in the other, having uncovered himself as soon as he perceived his father.
- To expose the genitalia. The phallus had power to subdue the attacks of demons and the Evil Eye; and the female organs were potent over elemental disturbances, thus a woman uncovering herself could quell a storm.
- To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.
