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Reveal   /rɪvˈil/  /rivˈil/   Listen
Reveal

verb
(past & past part. revealed; pres. part. revealing)
1.
Make visible.  Synonyms: bring out, uncover, unveil.  "He brings out the best in her"
2.
Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.  Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, unwrap.  "The actress won't reveal how old she is" , "Bring out the truth" , "He broke the news to her" , "Unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
3.
Disclose directly or through prophets.



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"Reveal" Quotes from Famous Books



... difficult cause of the great Wagner. What Liszt suffered to make this sacrifice, the world does not know. But no finer example of moral heroism can be imagined. His conversations with me upon the subject were so intimate that I do not care to reveal one word. ...
— Great Pianists on Piano Playing • James Francis Cooke
... chest matted with dense, black hair. It would almost have made a whole head of hair for an average man. One could always see this hair because he was proud of its possession, thought it denoted virility and strength, and wore his shirt open at the neck, and several buttons lower, in order to reveal his full hirsuteness. ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... people in many of them, which thing is not in itself displeasing. It has the advantage of allowing the author to display his men and women in changed circumstances, to cast side-lights upon them, and to reveal them more completely. However, here and there, we pay for the privilege in meeting with bores whose further acquaintance we would fain have been spared. And then, also, we are likely enough to come across a hero or ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... language finds its base in the very essence of our being. The poet is one gifted to seize upon these hidden analogies, to read these mystic symbols, and, through the force of his own imagination, to reveal them to his brethren ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. IV. October, 1863, No. IV. - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various
... lyre, reveal New rhymes, fresh minted, from above, Nor still be deaf to our appeal. Why, WHY are rhymes so ...
— Ban and Arriere Ban • Andrew Lang


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