Reveal

Definitions: Reveal

Reveal

Verb

1. Make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings out the best in her"; "The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings".

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; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her".

3. Make clear and visible; "The article revealed the policies of the government".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reveal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

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Synonyms: Reveal

Disclosure

Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split.

Crosswords: Reveal

But when he dismissed her again the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress. (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

Next time on a very special clone high, Will Abe and Joans student films reveal their true feelings for one other? (Clone High; writing credit: Damian Chapa)

Well yes, a spider web would reveal an arachnid presence. (Arachnophobia; writing credit: Don Jakoby; Al Williams)

Just melt her down and you'll reveal a lump of lead as cold as steel Here, where a woman's heart should be. (The Music Man; writing credit: Meredith Willson; Franklin Lacey)

My swollen eyes reveal my pain (Mishale; performing artist: Andru Donalds)

Cause somehow I'm so afraid the love will reveal what you're made of (In My Pocket; performing artist: Mandy Moore)

No secrets to reveal (Our Lips Are Sealed; performing artist: The Go-Go's)

Mysteries not ready to reveal (Thirty-Three; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)

Only to you I would reveal my tears (911; performing artist: Wyclef Jean)

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. (references; author: Mark Twain)

In a recent survey, what did Americans reveal was their favorite smell? Banana. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War (reference)

• Naked and Not Ashamed: We'Ve Been Afraid to Reveal What God Longs to Heal (reference)

• Beyond Valor: World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat (reference)

• Life Colors: What the Colors in Your Aura Reveal (reference)

• Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Reveal (reference)

• Reveal (Limited Edition) (reference)

• Time Will Reveal [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• GE Reveal Bulb, Three-Way, 30/70/100 Watts (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Autopsy specimen of aorta has been opened lengthwise to reveal luminal surface studded with lesions of atherosclerosis.Credit: CDC.

Surgically removed, formalin-fixed fallopian tube has been opened to reveal human embryo and placenta.Credit: CDC.

Observations obtained by the Hubble telescope and ground-based instruments reveal that ...Credit: NASA.

The Hubble Space Telescope continues to reveal various stunning and intricate treasures that ...Credit: NASA.

Eroded cliffs along the Tred Avon River reveal buried piles of oyster shells.Credit: America's Coastlines.

A close look at this rocky shoreline will reveal a great number of seals.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Caption: Kinetoscope (1894) in West Orange Library, Doors Open to Reveal Mechanism; West Orange, NJ; September 29, 1939; {23.100/38} (jpg).

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. A ground comparator will reveal the presence of an ore body under the surface of the earth by measuring the total intensity and the plane of polarization of the secondary electro-magnetic field set up by the ore.Credit: Library of Congress.

Cartoon of a soldier, possibly Vietnamese, with arm in flames, carrying firearm and wearing helmet cut away to reveal man inside.Credit: Library of Congress.

Man opening shirt to reveal American flag tatooed on his chest; woman replying by lifting her shirt to show two peace signs tatooed on her chest.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Germany undertakes: (1) To give every facility to Commissions to enquire into the cases of those who cannot be traced; to furnish such Commissions with all necessary means of transport; to allow them access to camps, prisons, hospitals and all other places; and to place at their disposal all documents, whether public or private, which would facilitate their enquiries; (2) To impose penalties upon any German officials or private persons who have concealed the presence of any nationals of any of the Allied and Associated Powers or have neglected to reveal the presence of any such after it had come to their knowledge. (reference)

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The judicial investigations, for other reasons than history, did not reveal everything, nor perhaps get to the bottom of everything.

He waited in stupor of mind till it should lift and reveal what it had hidden.

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Health

Others may prefer to reveal the diagnosis early. (references)

Insist that patients reveal private or sensitive information. (references)

The pictures can reveal abnormal heart size, shape, and movement. (references)

Business

Recent studies reveal that Venezuelans are quick to upgrade their handsets. (references)

Import figures reveal that there has been modest growth in imports of dental equipment and supplies. (references)

The figures in Table 2 reveal that the local market has been expanding rapidly in terms of installed capacity. (references)

Civil Liberties

South Africa

The Criminal Procedure Act may be used to compel reporters to reveal their sources. (references)

Samoa

The law requires journalists to reveal their sources in the event of a defamation suit against them. (references)

Syria

The amendments also imposed strict punishments on reporters who do not reveal their government sources in response to government requests. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

Industry figures reveal that more than 30 percent of local output is exported. (references)

France

Changes in different areas of the French franchise market reveal consumer behavior trends. (references)

Turkey

User demographics reveal that most of the products and services offered on the Internet in Turkey target young professionals. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

Medical examination of persons arrested through 2000 and this year continued to reveal multiple cases of torture. (references)

Uzbekistan

She allegedly was denied medication for a heart problem and was denied sleep in an effort to force her to reveal her husband's whereabouts. (references)

Turkey

However, the committee has refused to violate the principle of confidentiality and would not reveal the names of the alleged torture victims. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

The Election Commission later announced that it completed its investigation into these complaints, but it did not reveal its findings. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

The report alleged that maquilas often obligate women to reveal whether they are pregnant as a condition of employment, either through questions on job applications, in interviews, or through physical examinations. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "reveal": reveal a secret ♦ reveal itself ♦ reveal oneself ♦ structural reveal. Additional references.

Afrikaan

ontwikkel (develop), afkondig (issue, proclaim, promulgate, publish). (various references)

Albanian

zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), zbulim (detection, disclosure, discovery, divulge, exploration, exposure, eye opener, finding, guess, intelligence, invention, outcrop, prospection, reconnaissance, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, strike, uncovering), shfaqje (apparition, appearance, demonstration, display, emergence, emersion, exhibition, manifestation, parade, presentation, presentment, profession, raree show, screening, sellout, shew, show, showing, theatricals), nxjerr në shesh (bare, bring to light, exhume, proclaim, uncover), demaskoj (belie, debunk, disclose, disrobe, uncloak, unmask), demaskim (disclosure, exposure, unmasking). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كشف (bare, bring to light, detect, disclose, disclosure, discover, divulge, expose, exposure, find out, lay bare, lay open, lift, make known, open, remove, revelation, show up, take off, uncover, unearth, unfold, unveil), ‏الهام (revelation), ‏إفشاء (disclosure, revelation), ‏أوحى إلى (imply), ‏ظهر (appear, arise, back, brighten up, bring out, come to light, declare, declassify, define, denote, develop, evidence, exercise, exhibit, express, feature, image, indicate, infer, loom, manifest, mark, note, occur, outcrop, parade, peep, play up, poke, pop up, proclaim, produce, show, show up, spring, surface, turn up, walk), ‏باح. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разгласявам (delate, divulge, notify, peal, peddle, proclaim, publicize, publish, sound), откривам (bare, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, disinter, espy, expose, find, find out, inaugurate, initiate, lay bare, lay open, lead off, locate, open, pick out, pry out, recover, reopen, rout out, rout up, run down, spot, strike, unclose, uncover, unearth, unveil), проявявам (develop, display, evince, exhibit, manifest, process, put forth, show). (various references)

Catalan

revelar (develop). (various references)

Chinese 

表露 (show), 示 (to show), 暴露 (expose, lay bare), 显露 (revealed, revealing). (various references)

Czech

zjevit, ukázat (demonstrate, match, point, put forward, show), prozradit (betray, disclose, divulge, give away, leak), odhalit (be on to smb., bring out, detect, disclose, expose, find out, show smb. up, show up, spy out, unbosom, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unfold, unlock, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Danish

åbenbare (publish). (various references)

Dutch

openbaren (develop, let know), kenbaar maken (let know). (various references)

Esperanto

riveli (develop), publikigi (publish), malkaŝi, konigi (let know). (various references)

Faeroese

kunngera (communicate, publish, report), gera almannakunnugt (publish). (various references)

Farsi 

فاش کردن (Babble, Betray, Disclose, Divulge, Giveaway, Manifest, Peach, Squeal, Tattle, Tell, Uncloak, Unfold, Utter), معلوم کردن (Evince, Locate, Manifest, Specify), اشکارکردن (Air, Announce, Bare, Disclose, Display, Light, Quarry, Unbonnet, Uncover, Unfold, Unhood). (various references)

Finnish

ovenpieli (door-post), ikkunanpieli (window jamb). (various references)

French

révéler. (various references)

Frisian

publisearje (publish), bekendmeitsje (publish). (various references)

German

offenbaren (evince, expose, unbosom, unlock). (various references)

Greek 

αποκαλύπτω (bespeak, betray, blow, disclose, divulge, uncloak, uncover, unfold, unveil). (various references)

Hebrew 

למצוא (discover, find, find out, guess), להראות (demonstrate, exhibit, show), לגלות את אזנו (disclose). (various references)

Hungarian

kinyilatkoztat (enounce, proclaim, to asseverate), felfed (disclose, identify, locate, pinpoint, showed, shown, to disclose, to expose, to identify, to lay bare, to see into, to show, to uncloak, to unfold, to untangle, unbosom, unfold), ajtótok (door-case). (various references)

Indonesian

menyatakan (acknowledge, enounce, enunciate, formulate, profess), membeber (open up, unfurl), ekspos (expose, uncover). (various references)

Italian

pubblicare (advertise, announce, edit, give, give notice, issue, post, print, proclaim, publish, redact). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

披歴 (express one's opinion, make known), 口外 (disclosure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひれき (express one's opinion, expressing, make known, revealing, state), こうがい (deploration, disclosure, epitome, off grounds, off-campus, out of school, out of the pit, outline, outside a port or harbor, outside the premises, outskirts, palate, patriotic lamentation, pollution, pollution or environmental damage due to mining, public nuisance, righteous indignation, suburb, summary). (various references)

Korean 

계시하십시요. (various references)

Manx

taishbyney (argue, demonstrate, display, evidence, evince; parade, exhibit, exposure, feature, manifest, produce, production, revelation, show, show down, show off, sport), soilshaghey magh (advert, advertise, advertising, announce, announcer, burst forth, declare, denote, depict, exposition, publicise, publish, publishing, revelation, set forth), giall (bet, promise), ashlaghey (to appear in a vision). (various references)

Norwegian

fremkalle (develop, evoke). (various references)

Papiamen

publiká (publish). (various references)

Pig Latin

evealray

Polish

ujawnić, odkryć. (various references)

Portuguese

revelar (betray, bewray, break, demonstrate, disclose, discover, discoverer, disembosom, display, exposed, lay bare, publicize, represent, show, smoke out, unbosom, uncloak, unclose, uncover, unfold, unkennel, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Romanian

revela (open), trãda (bespeak, betray, deceive, disclose, evince, give away, Mark, rat, witness), dezvãlui (appear, bare, debunk, disclose, divulge, evolve, lay bare, show, show up, uncover, unfold, unveil), destãinui (bring to light, confide, disclose, disembosom, divulge, expose, let in on, open, unbosom, unfold), descoperi (crack, descry, detect, disclose, discover, ferret, find out, fish, grub, hit, invent, lay open, nose out, open, rip, spy, strike, uncover, unearth, unravel), da pe faţã (spring), arãta (appear, bespeak, betoken, carry forth, connote, demonstrate, designate, display, evidence, evince, exhibit, lay out, look, Mark, point, point out, produce, prove, put up, read, record, rise, seem, set, show, show up, signify, teach, trot out). (various references)

Russian 

обнаруживать (bring out, bring to light, catch out, chance on, detect, disclose, discover, display, find, find out, locate, manifest, open up, revealed, rummage, uncurtain). (various references)

Scottish

taisbean (make manifest, show), nochd (bare, disclose, display, exposed, naked, to-night), foillsich (declare, disclose, make manifest, publish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rub prozora, otkriti (bare, descry, detect, disclose, discover, divulge, dog down, expose, expose smb., let out, turn up, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unfold), odati (betray, bewray, disclose, pay, tell on), obelodaniti (detect, disbosom, disclose, uncase, uncloak, unearth). (various references)

Spanish

revelar (bring to light, come to light, develop, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, give out, let out, manifest, process, publish, show, show up), publicar (acquaint, advertise, air, announce, ask, bring out, get out, give notice, inform, insert, insert in a newspaper, issue, let know, print, publicize, publish, put forth, put out, release, utter), divulgar (acquaint, announce, bruit, disclose, divulge, give out, inform, let know, peddle, publicize, publish). (various references)

Swedish

yppa (divulge, expose, open, tell, unclose), uppenbara (disclose), röja (betray, clear, display, divulge, expose, grub, thin), förråda (betray, blow, put away, sell), avslöja (betray, come clean, debunk, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, lay bare, let on, let out, nail, open, relieve, spill out, tattle, unclose, uncover, unfold, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Tagalog

ihayág (publish). (various references)

Thai

แสดงให้เห็น (establish, exhibit), เปิดเผย (frank). (various references)

Turkish

vahiy etmek, pervaz (cincture, cornice, cyma, dressing, fringe, jamb, molding, moulding, rib, ribbon, shelf, sill, Wale, wheal), meydana çıkarmak (bring to light, catch out, dig up, elicit, nail, show), ilham vermek (infuse, infuse into, inspire, transfuse), ifşa etmek (disclose, divulge), gözler önüne sermek (display, set out, show off, show up), esin vermek, belli etmek (argue, evince, express, give vent to, let on, make clear, register, shadow, shadow forth, shadow out, show, sound, Telegraph, vent), açiklamak (account for, clarify, explain, publish), açığa vurmak (betray, disclose, divulge, evince, express, externalize, give vent to, lay bare, let on, spill, uncloak, unclose, uncork, unseal, unveil, utter, vent, ventilate, yield, yield up). (various references)

Turkmen 

paramak (reveal oneself). (various references)

Ukranian 

свідчити (argue, attest, bear testimony, bear witness, depone, evidence, evince, give witness, homologate, militate, proclaim, swear, tell, testate, testify, witness), відкривати (bare, dedicate, detect, discover, disembosom, find, open, unbosom, unclose, undo, unfasten, unlock). (various references)

Welsh

datguddio (disclose), amlygu (evince, manifest). (various references)

pad. (various references)

aperio, confessa, confessi, confessus, confiteamur, confiteantur, confitearis, confiteatur, confitebantur, confitebatur, confiteberis, confitebimur, confitebitur, confitebor, confitebuntur, confitemini, confitemur, confitendum, confitentem, confitentes, confitentibus, confitentium, confitentur, confiteor, confitere, confiterentur, confiteretur, confiteri, confitetur, declaro, delicata, delicatae, delicate, delicati, delicatum, delicatus, demonstra, demonstrabatur, demonstrabit, demonstrabitur, demonstrabo, demonstrare, demonstrasti, demonstrat, demonstratum, demonstratus, demonstravi, demonstravit, demonstres, deprehendere, deprehenderit, deprehendi, deprehendisset, deprehenditur, deprehensa, deprehensam, deprehensus, detegere, enuntiabit, enuntiant, enuntiat, enuntiavi, enuntiavit, enuntio, fateor, indica, indicabis, indicabit, indicabo, indicabunt, indicandam, indicans, indicare, indicarent, indicaretis, indicas, indicasset, indicasti, indicastis, indicat, indicate, indicati, indicatum, indicaverat, indicaverit, indicaveritis, indicaverunt, indicavi, indicavit, indicavitque, indicem, indices, indicet, indico, manifesta, manifestabat, manifestabatur, manifestabitur, manifestabo, manifestantur, manifestare, manifestarent, manifestaretur, manifestari, manifestasti, manifestat, manifestata, manifestati, manifestatio, manifestatione, manifestatum, manifestatur, manifestaturus, manifestatus, manifestavi, manifestavit, manifestem, manifestes, manifestetur, manifesto, monstra, monstrabatur, monstrabo, monstraret, monstratum, monstratur, monstraverim, monstravero, monstravi, monstravit, ostendam, ostendant, ostendantur, ostendas, ostendasque, ostendat, ostendatur, ostende, ostendebat, ostendebitur, ostendendam, ostendens, ostendent, ostendentes, ostenderat, ostendere, ostenderem, ostenderent, ostenderes, ostenderet, ostenderetur, ostenderis, ostenderit, ostenderunt, ostendes, ostendet, ostendetur, ostendeturque, ostendi, ostendimus, ostendis, ostendisset, ostendisti, ostendistis, ostendit, ostendite, ostenditque, ostendo, ostendunt, ostensa, ostenso, ostensum, ostensus, ostenta, patefacientes, patefactum, prodere, proderet, proderis, prodiderat, prodideris, prodit, proditi, proditor, produc, producam, producant, producas, producat, producatque, producendi, producens, producere, produceret, producet, producetur, producis, producit, producite, producturus, producunt, produxerant, produxeris, produxerit, produxi, produxit, produxitque, promptu, promptu, in promptu ponere, protraham, protrahantur, protrahas, protraxisti, protraxit, revela, revelabis, revelabit, revelabitur, revelabo, revelabunt, revelamini, revelanda, revelans, revelare, revelaret, revelaretur, revelari, revelasti, revelastis, revelat, revelata, revelatum, revelatur, revelatus, revelaverat, revelaverit, revelavi, revelavit, revelentur, revelet, reveletur. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "reveal": revealable, revealed, revealer, revealers, revealing, revealingly, revealment, revealments, reveals. (additional references)

Words containing "reveal": unrevealed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Reveal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Erfal, leveal, Neveau, Oreval, Rafal, rafalo, raveal, redeal, refail, reheal, reueale, reval, revear, reveil, revele, revell, revital, rezeil, rovea, Rueval, treveal, trevean. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: laveer, leaver, vealer.

-1 letter: elver, laree, laver, leave, lever, ravel, reave, revel, velar.

-2 letters: alee, aver, earl, eave, ever, lave, lear, leer, leva, rale, rave, real, reel, vale, veal, veer, vela, vera.

-3 letters: ale, are, ave, ear, eel, era, ere, eve, lar, lav, lea, lee, lev, ree, rev, var, vee.

-4 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re.

+1 letter: cleaver, haverel, laveers, leavers, leavier, raveled, raveler, revalue, reveals, several, vealers, vealier.

+2 letters: aversely, cervelas, cervelat, clavered, cleavers, crevalle, deverbal, elevator, enslaver, graveled, haverels, laveered, lavender, levanter, leverage, levirate, marveled, overable, overlade, overlate, overleaf, overleap, oversale, overzeal, ravelers, ravelled, raveller, relative, relevant, revalued, revalues, revealed, revealer, revenual, reversal, reviewal, servable, severals, slavered, slaverer, traveled, traveler, valerate, velarize, venereal, vernacle, vesperal.

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