Disclose vs Unclose - What's the difference?
disclose | unclose |
(obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
* Francis Bacon
To uncover, physically expose to view.
* Woodward
* 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:
To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
* Alexander Pope
* Addison
(poetic) To open; to unclench.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.112:
As verbs the difference between disclose and unclose
is that disclose is to open up, unfasten while unclose is to open; to unclench.As a noun disclose
is a disclosure.disclose
English
Verb
(disclos)- The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
- The shells being broken, the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
- Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
- Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .
- If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.
Synonyms
* divulge * impart * publish * reveal * unveilAntonyms
* cover upDerived terms
* discloserunclose
English
Verb
- His eyes he opened, shut, again unclosed , / For all was doubt and dizziness [...].
