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/dɪsklˈoʊz/ Listen

verb

Disclose v. t. (past & past part. disclosed; pres. part. disclosing)

To unclose; to open; applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch. "The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them."

To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover. "The shells being broken,... the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty."

To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal. "How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown!" "Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose."

To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs. "If I disclose my passion, Our friendship 's an end."

Synonyms: To uncover; open; unveil; discover; reveal; divulge; tell; utter.

noun

Disclose n. Disclosure. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Disclose'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disclose" Quotes from Famous Books

... could arrive at no conclusion regarding an attempt to escape until the coming of daylight, which he hoped would reach him with sufficient clearness to disclose the nature of his prison, his thoughts finally drifted to other matters. He recalled his lost letter, and wondered if Rose would grow very impatient at his long delay ...

— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe

... instructions, demanded an audience of the States. It was readily granted. The assembly was unusually large. The general belief was that some overture respecting commerce was about to be made; and the President brought a written answer framed on that supposition. As soon as Avaux began to disclose his errand, signs of uneasiness were discernible. Those who were believed to enjoy the confidence of the Prince of Orange cast down their eyes. The agitation became great when the Envoy announced ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 2 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... but none the less perennial stoop. His means had endowed him with a single outworn suit of ready-made clothing which, shrinking sensitively on each successive application of the tailor's sizzling goose, had come to disclose his person with disconcerting candour—sleeves too short, trousers at once too short and too narrow, waistcoat buttons straining over his chest, coat buttons refusing to recognise a buttonhole save that at the waist. Circumstances these that ...

— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance

... to answer Sancho lest by his plain speaking he should disclose what the curate and he himself were trying so hard to conceal; and under the same apprehension the curate had asked the canon to ride on a little in advance, so that he might tell him the mystery of this man in the cage, and ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... Prometheus, found refuge he a just man, and she a faithful worshipper of the gods. Jupiter, when he saw none left alive but this pair, and remembered their harmless lives and pious demeanor, ordered the north winds to drive away the clouds, and disclose the skies to earth, and earth to the skies. Neptune also directed Triton to blow on his shell, and sound a retreat to the waters. The waters obeyed, and the sea returned to its shores, and the rivers to their channels. Then Deucalion thus addressed Pyrrha: "O wife, only surviving woman, joined ...

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