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Declassify vs Disclose - What's the difference?

declassify | disclose |

As verbs the difference between declassify and disclose

is that declassify is to remove the classification from; to lift the restrictions on while disclose is (obsolete) to open up, unfasten.

As a noun disclose is

(obsolete) a disclosure.

declassify

English

Verb

  • to remove the classification from; to lift the restrictions on

    • disclose

    English

    Verb

    (disclos)
  • (obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
  • To uncover, physically expose to view.
  • * Woodward
    • The shells being broken, the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
  • * 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.
  • To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .
  • * Addison
    • If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.

    Synonyms

    * divulge * impart * publish * reveal * unveil

    Antonyms

    * cover up

    Derived terms

    * discloser

    Related terms

    * disclosure

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A disclosure