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Uncover vs Uncovering - What's the difference?

uncover | uncovering |

As verbs the difference between uncover and uncovering

is that uncover is to remove the cover of an object while uncovering is .

As a noun uncovering is

the act by which something is uncovered.

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

    uncovering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is uncovered.
  • * 1969 , William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Dark Water: Voices from Within the Veil
    • In partial compensation for this narrowed destiny the white world has lavished its politeness on its womankind,—its chivalry and bows, its uncoverings and courtesies—all the accumulated homage disused for courts and kings
  • * 2000 , Paul Gorner, Twentieth Century German Philosophy (page 158)
    • Although clearly we play a part in particular uncoverings of entities, the discovery of particular truths, we have no control over basic modes of revealing and revealedness, concealing and concealedness.