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Uncover vs Disclosed - What's the difference?

uncover | disclosed |

As verbs the difference between uncover and disclosed

is that uncover is to remove the cover of an object while disclosed is past tense of disclose.

uncover

English

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

    Antonyms

    * cover up

    disclosed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disclose)

  • 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

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A disclosure