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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈviːl/
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• Canada, General-American: /ɹɪˈvil/
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• Australian: /ɹɪˈviːl/
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• Australian: [ɹɪˈvɪil] cultivated
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• New-Zealand: /ɹəˈviːl/
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• rhymes with -iːl
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• CMU ARPABET: R IH0 V IY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: R IY0 V IY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”)).

105 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: كَشَفَ (kašafa) — to uncover
• Aragonese: revelar — to uncover
• Azerbaijani: üzə çıxarmaq — to uncover
• Bulgarian: разкривам (razkrivam) — to uncover
• Catalan: revelar — to uncover
• Chinese Mandarin: 透露 (tòulù) — to uncover
• Chinese Mandarin: 顯示 /显示 (xiǎnshì) — to uncover
• Ngazidja Comorian: upvenua — to uncover
• Czech: odhalit — to uncover
• Danish: afsløre — to uncover
• Dutch: onthullen — to uncover
• Dutch: zich ontpoppen — to uncover
• Egyptian: pr:r-D54-Xr:r (prj ẖr) — to uncover
• Esperanto: malkaŝi — to uncover
• Estonian: paljastama — to uncover
• Finnish: paljastaa — to uncover
• French: révéler — to uncover
• Galician: revelar — to uncover
• German: enthüllen — to uncover
• Greek: αποκαλύπτω (apokalýpto) — to uncover
• Ancient Greek: φαίνω (phaínō) — to uncover
• Ancient Greek: ἐκφαίνω (ekphaínō) — to uncover
• Ancient Greek: μηνύω (mēnúō) — to uncover
• Hebrew: גילה (gilá) — to uncover
• Hebrew: חשף (khasáf) — to uncover
• Hungarian: felfed — to uncover
• Icelandic: afhjúpa — to uncover
• Ido: revelar — to uncover
• Irish: foilsigh — to uncover
• Old Irish: foilsigidir — to uncover
• Italian: rivelare — to uncover
• Italian: gettare la maschera — to uncover
• Italian: uscire allo scoperto — to uncover
• Italian: mostrare se stesso — to uncover
• Italian: svelare — to uncover
• Japanese: 現す (arawasu) — to uncover
• Japanese: 表す (arawasu) — to uncover
• Japanese: 表わす (arawasu) — to uncover
• Korean: 나타내다 (natanaeda) — to uncover
• Korean: 드러내다 (deureonaeda) — to uncover
• Central Kurdish: دەرخستن (derxistin) — to uncover
• Latin: acclārō — to uncover
• Latin: exhibeō — to uncover
• Latin: patefaciō — to uncover
• Latin: revēlō — to uncover
• Macedonian: открива (otkriva) — to uncover
• Malay: dedah — to uncover
• Norwegian: avsløre — to uncover
• Old Church Slavonic: авити (aviti) — to uncover
• Old English: ætīewan — to uncover
• Persian: مکشوف ساختن (makšuf sâxtan) — to uncover
• Polish: odkrywać — to uncover
• Polish: odkryć — to uncover
• Polish: odsłaniać — to uncover
• Polish: odsłonić — to uncover
• Polish: ujawniać — to uncover
• Polish: ujawnić — to uncover
• Portuguese: revelar — to uncover
• Russian: выявля́ть (vyjavljátʹ) — to uncover
• Russian: раскрыва́ть (raskryvátʹ) — to uncover
• Russian: пока́зывать (pokázyvatʹ) — to uncover
• Scots: kithe — to uncover
• Serbo-Croatian: открити — to uncover
• Serbo-Croatian: otkriti — to uncover
• Spanish: revelar — to uncover
• Spanish: propalar — to uncover
• Swahili: -toboa — to uncover
• Swahili: -dhihirisha — to uncover
• Swedish: uppenbara — to uncover
• Swedish: avslöja — to uncover
• Swedish: avtäcka — to uncover
• Telugu: బయటపెట్టు (bayaṭapeṭṭu) — to uncover
• Telugu: వెల్లడించు (vellaḍiñcu) — to uncover
• Thai: เปิดเผย (bpə̀ət-pə̌əi) — to uncover
• Turkish: açığa vurmak — to uncover
• Ottoman Turkish: كشف ایتمك (keşf etmek) — to uncover
• Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎙𐎊 (bġy) — to uncover
• Ukrainian: розкривати (rozkryvaty) — to uncover
• Ukrainian: виявляти (vyjavljaty) — to uncover
• Ukrainian: показувати (pokazuvaty) — to uncover
• Ukrainian: з'ясовувати (zʺjasovuvaty) — to uncover
• Vietnamese: để lộ — to uncover
• Vietnamese: tiết lộ — to uncover
• Welsh: datguddio — to uncover
• Yiddish: אַנטפּלעקן (antplekn) — to uncover
• Arabic: أَوْحَى (ʔawḥā) — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Arabic: أَنْزَلَ (ʔanzala) — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Arabic: نَزَّلَ (nazzala) — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Azerbaijani: nazil etmək — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Catalan: divulgar — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Ngazidja Comorian: uɓulia — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Ngazidja Comorian: upvenulia — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• French: révéler — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• French: laisser voir — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Galician: revelar — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• German: offenbaren — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Italian: rivelare — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Latin: dēclārō — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Latin: ēnūntiō — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Plautdietsch: openboaren — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Portuguese: divulgar — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Spanish: revelar — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Swahili: kufunulia — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Vietnamese: mặc khải — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction
• Welsh: datguddio — to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction