Definition of "uncover"

uncover

/ʌnˈkʌvɚ/

verb
third-person singular simple present uncovers, present participle uncovering, simple past and past participle uncovered
1. To remove a cover from.
2. To reveal the identity of.
3. To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
  Quotations
  To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.
  1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […]
4. (reflexive, intransitive) To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect.
  Quotations
  Alfred, surprised to meet his father, whom he thought absent from home, […] stood, holding his firelock in one hand, and his hat in the other, having uncovered himself as soon as he perceived his father.
  1824, Town and Country Tales, page 115
  The English soldiers were directed in general orders to salute and uncover before the Host as it passed, and here in the wilderness the old religion held firm sway.
  1891, N. H. Chamberlain, “In the Footprints of Burgoyne's Army”, in New England Magazine, volume 4, Boston, MA: New England Magazine Corporation
5. (reflexive, intransitive) To expose the genitalia.
  Quotations
  The phallus had power to subdue the attacks of demons and the Evil Eye; and the female organs were potent over elemental disturbances, thus a woman uncovering herself could quell a storm.
  1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 159
6. (military, transitive) To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.

Definition of "uncover"

uncover

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