unmask
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
unmask (unmasks, present participle unmasking; past and past participle unmasked)
- (transitive) To remove a mask from someone.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To remove one's mask.
- (transitive, computing) To enable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting or setting the associated bit.
- French: démasquer
- Italian: smascherare
- Spanish: desenmascarar
- French: révéler, dévoiler, démasquer
- Italian: smascherare, palesare, scoprire
- Spanish: descubrir, revelar, demostrar
- French: démasquer
- Italian: smascherarsi
- Spanish: desenmascararse
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