• IPA: /dɪsˈkləʊz/

disclose (discloses, present participle disclosing; past and past participle disclosed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries

     The estrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.

2. (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.

   Synonyms: reveal, unveil

   • 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.

3. (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.

   Synonyms: reveal, unveil, divulge, publish, impart

   • 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands, London: Printed for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 228744960 ↗, canto II:

     Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose.

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 3, scene 1]:

     If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.

• (to expose to the knowledge of others) bring to light, expose, reveal; See also Thesaurus:divulge
• (to make known, state openly) impart, make known, publish; See also Thesaurus:announce

• cover up
• withhold

• disclosure

• French: découvrir, laisser voir
• German: enthüllen
• Portuguese: revelar, expor
• Russian: раскрыва́ть
• Spanish: revelar

• French: révéler, divulguer
• German: veröffentlichen, bekanntgeben, bekanntmachen
• Portuguese: revelar, divulgar
• Russian: раскрыва́ть
• Spanish: divulgar

disclose (plural discloses)

1. (obsolete) A disclosure.