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unveil - 5 dictionary results

un⋅veil

[uhn-veyl]
–verb (used with object)
1. to remove a veil or other covering from; display; reveal: The woman unveiled herself.
2. to reveal or disclose by or as if by removing a veil or covering: to unveil a monument; to unveil a secret; to unveil a truth.
–verb (used without object)
3. to become revealed by or as if by removing a veil.

Origin:
1590–1600; un- 2 + veil


2. divulge, bare, broadcast, expose.
un·veil   (ŭn-vāl')   
v.   un·veiled, un·veil·ing, un·veils

v.   tr.
  1. To remove a veil or covering from.
  2. To disclose; reveal.
v.   intr.
  1. To take off one's veil.
  2. To reveal oneself.

Unveil

Un*veil"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + veil.] To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

Unveil

Un*veil"\, v. i. To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.
Language Translation for : unveil
Spanish: descubrir, destapar,
German: entschleiern,
Japanese: おおいを取る

unveil 
1599, in ref. to sight, "to make clear," from un- (2) + veil (v.). Sense of "to display or reveal" (something) is from 1657.
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