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

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

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.

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

• French: révéler
• German: enthüllen
• Italian: rivelare, gettare la maschera, uscire allo scoperto, mostrare se stesso, svelare
• Portuguese: revelar
• Russian: выявля́ть
• Spanish: revelar, propalar

• French: révéler, laisser voir
• German: offenbaren
• Italian: rivelare
• Portuguese: divulgar
• Spanish: revelar