disclose
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From Middle English disclosen, from Middle French, from Old French desclore, itself from vulgar Latin disclaudere, from Latin dis- + claudere ‘to close, shut’.
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disclose (third-person singular simple present discloses, present participle disclosing, simple past and past participle disclosed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
- (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:
- Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:
- (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
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open up — see open up
physically expose to view
make known
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- French: révéler
- Italian: svelare, scoperchiare, far noto
[edit] Noun
disclose (plural discloses)
- (obsolete) A disclosure
