unmask
English
Alternative forms
- unmasque (archaic)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ʌnˈmæsk/, /ʌnˈmɑːsk/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ʌnˈmæsk/
Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -æsk
Verb
unmask (third-person singular simple present unmasks, present participle unmasking, simple past and past participle unmasked)
- (transitive) To remove a mask from someone.
- (transitive) To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 35–36:
- The Charieſt maide is prodigall enough, / If ſhe vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.
- (intransitive) To remove one's mask.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- But instead of a direct answer to so important a question, Jones began to be very importunate with the lady to unmask; and at length having prevailed, there appeared not Mrs Fitzpatrick, but the Lady Bellaston herself.
Translations
to remove a mask from someone
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to expose the true character of someone
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to remove one's mask
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