Disclose
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪsˈkləʊz/
- Rhymes: -əʊz
Origin
From Middle English disclosen, from Middle French, from Old French desclore, itself from vulgar Latin disclaudere, from Latin dis- + claudere ‘to close, shut’.
Full definition of disclose
Verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
- Francis BaconThe ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
- (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.
- WoodwardThe 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.
- (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
- Alexander PopeHer lively looks a sprightly mind disclose.
- AddisonIf I disclose my passion,
Our friendship's at an end.