reveal
reveal Lexical Profile
reveal Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To make previously unknown or secret information known to others.
"The journalist refused to reveal the identity of her confidential source."
To cause or allow something to be seen by removing a covering or obstruction.
"The museum curator pulled back the velvet curtain to reveal the restored painting."
• noun
A final disclosure of previously unknown information or a dramatic unveiling, especially in a narrative or television program.
"The audience gasped during the big reveal at the end of the mystery film."
In architecture and construction, the vertical side surface of an opening for a window or doorway between the frame and the outer surface of a wall.
"The carpenter measured the depth of the window reveal before cutting the trim."
• Rhymes for reveal
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French reveler, from Latin revelare ('to unveil, uncover, lay bare'), formed from re- (expressing reversal) and velare ('to cover or veil'), from velum ('a veil').