Uncover vs Disclosed - What's the difference?
uncover | disclosed |
to remove the cover of an object
To reveal the identity of
To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
* Milton
To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of.
(disclose)
(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
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)- The model railway was uncovered .
- The murderer has finally been uncovered .
- To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.
- to uncover oneself
Antonyms
* cover updisclosed
English
Verb
(head)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.