noun
Meaning 1
A disclosure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
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noun
A disclosure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To open up; unfasten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To uncover; physically expose to view.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: reveal, unveil, expose
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known; state openly; reveal (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: occasionally intransitive
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Synonyms: reveal, unveil, divulge, publish, impart
Antonyms: none provided
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: unwrap, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tell
Narrower terms: blackwash, muckrake, blow, out, come out of the closet, come out, spring, betray, bewray, confide, leak, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out, reveal
verb
disclose to view as by removing a cover
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: expose
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal
Narrower terms: face
History
From Middle English disclosen, from Middle French desclos, from Old French desclore, itself from Vulgar Latin disclaudere, from Latin dis- + claudere (“to close, shut”) or as a variant of discludo, discludere (cf. disclude). By surface analysis, dis- + close.
Across languages
79 source translations are retained for this English entry.