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.

Verb

(en verb)

To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.

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To demonstrate.

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(legal) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.

To put on a public display.

(medicine) To administer as a remedy.