Disclose vs Withhold - What's the difference?
disclose | withhold |
(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
To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
To keep (information, etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
In lang=en terms the difference between disclose and withhold
is that disclose is to expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal while withhold is to retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.As verbs the difference between disclose and withhold
is that disclose is (obsolete) to open up, unfasten while withhold is to keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.As a noun disclose
is (obsolete) 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.
