Verb

(en-verb)

To see.

To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.

* Shakespeare

Edmund, I think, is gone to descry / The strength o' the enemy.

* Milton

And now their way to earth they had descried .

* 1719 (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

When I had passed the vale where my bower stood

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To discover; to disclose; to reveal.

* Milton

His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.

Verb

(en verb)

to remove the cover of an object

The model railway was uncovered .

To reveal the identity of

The murderer has finally been uncovered .

To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.

* Milton

To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.

To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of.

to uncover oneself