Dictionary entry details
• REVEAL (verb)
Meaning:
Make visible
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
bring out; reveal; uncover; unveil
Context examples:
Summer brings out bright clothes / He brings out the best in her / The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings
Hypernyms (to "reveal" is one way to...):
show (make visible or noticeable)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reveal"):
unfold (open to the view)
trot out (bring out and show for inspection and admiration)
excavate; unearth (lay bare through digging)
disclose; expose (disclose to view as by removing a cover)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
disclose; let on; divulge; reveal; let out; give away; expose; unwrap; impart; discover; bring out; break
Context examples:
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 / unwrap the evidence in the murder case
Hypernyms (to "reveal" is one way to...):
tell (let something be known)
Cause:
break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reveal"):
blackwash (bring (information) out of concealment)
reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)
babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)
leak (tell anonymously)
confide (reveal in private; tell confidentially)
betray; bewray (reveal unintentionally)
spring (produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly)
come out; come out of the closet; out (to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality)
out (reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle)
blow (cause to be revealed and jeopardized)
muckrake (explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sentence example:
They reveal that there was a traffic accident
Meaning:
Make clear and visible
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
display; reveal; show
Context example:
The article revealed the policies of the government
Hypernyms (to "reveal" is one way to...):
communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across (transmit information)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reveal"):
express (manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Disclose directly or through prophets
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
God rarely reveal his plans for Mankind
Hypernyms (to "reveal" is one way to...):
break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; impart; let on; let out; reveal; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)
Domain category:
theological system; theology (a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
