01 v. t. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
imp. & p. p.
Revealed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Revealing
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1.
To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.“Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.” — Waller.
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2.
Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).
Syn.
To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show.
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.