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DISCLOSE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Example:

The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings

Synonyms:

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "disclose" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Cause:

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Verb group:

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disclose"):

blackwash (bring (information) out of concealment)

muckrake (explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures)

blow (cause to be revealed and jeopardized)

out (reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle)

come out; come out of the closet; out (to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality)

spring (produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly)

betray; bewray (reveal unintentionally)

confide (reveal in private; tell confidentially)

leak (tell anonymously)

babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)

reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They disclose that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

disclosure (the speech act of making something evident)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reveal to view as by removing a cover

Example:

The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set

Synonyms:

disclose; expose; uncover

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "disclose" is one way to...):

bring out; reveal; unveil (make visible)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disclose"):

face (turn so as to expose the face)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

His daughter had thrown off her mantle and disclosed a face of the finest and most delicate Italian beauty, which soon drew Ford's eyes from the pictures in front of him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At every jump of the schooner, red-cap slipped to and fro, but—what was ghastly to behold—neither his attitude nor his fixed teeth-disclosing grin was anyway disturbed by this rough usage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You will smile at my allusion, but I will disclose a secret.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

By the time his search had disclosed nothing more than many bruises and a state of terrible starvation, the sled was a quarter of a mile away.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

No men have ever found themselves in a worse position; nor is there any use in disclosing to you our exact geographical situation and asking our friends for a relief party.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And under such a supposition, which would have been most miserable, when time had disclosed all, too late?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Stay till he comes, reader; and, when I disclose my secret to him, you shall share the confidence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I felt as if I had come into the knowledge of those domestic weaknesses and tendernesses in a sacred confidence, and that to disclose them, even to Steerforth, would be wrong.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was no telling when the god's ulterior motive might be disclosed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Practitioner empathy may also reflect the doctor’s listening ability and the trust of the patient in disclosing what is really wrong so that it can be addressed.

(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)