unmask
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ʌnˈmæsk/, /ʌnˈmɑːsk/
  • (America) IPA: /ʌnˈmæsk/
Verb

unmask (unmasks, present participle unmasking; past and past participle unmasked)

  1. (transitive) To remove a mask from someone.
  2. (transitive) To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
    • c. 1599–1602, William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, OCLC 84758312 ↗, [Act I, scene ii] ↗, lines 35–36:
      The Charieſt maide is prodigall enough, / If ſhe vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.
  3. (intransitive) To remove one's mask.
  4. (transitive, computing) To enable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting or setting the associated bit.
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