reveal
Etymology

From Middle English revelen, from Old French reveler, from Latin revēlāre, from re- + vēlāre, from vēlum.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ɹɪˈviːl/, /ɹəˈviːl/
  • (America) IPA: /ɹɪˈvil/, /ɹəˈvil/
  • (Australia) IPA: /ɹɪˈviːl/, [ɹɪˈvɪil]
Noun

reveal (plural reveals)

  1. The outer side of a window or door frame.
    Synonyms: jamb, revel
    • 2010, Carter B. Horsley, The Upper East Side Book:
      The building has a one-story rusticated limestone base and a canopied entrance with a doorman beneath an attractive, rusticated limestone window reveal on the second floor and a very impressive and ornate limestone window reveal on the third floor flanked by female figures.
  2. (cinematography, narratology, comedy, usually, informal) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden in the scene or story.
    The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.
Verb

reveal (reveals, present participle revealing; simple past and past participle revealed)

  1. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
    Synonyms: uncover, unfold, unveil, Thesaurus:reveal
    • c. 1625, Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St Andero
      Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
  2. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.
    Synonyms: disclose, divulge, Thesaurus:divulge
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