disclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkləʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: discloses
form: disclosing
form: disclosed
form: disclosed
Etymology: From Middle English disclosen, from Middle French desclos, from Old French desclore, itself from Vulgar Latin disclaudere, from Latin dis- + claudere (“to close, shut”) or as a variant of discludo, discludere (cf. disclude). English equivalent dis- + close.
Senses: examples: text: The estrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To open up, unfasten.
examples: text: The shells being broken, […] the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
ref: 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:
text: And it seemed to me that the dream smote the roof above my bed, and the roof opened and disclosed the outer dark, and in the dark travelled a bearded star, and the night was quick with fiery signs.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18:
text: Some [nest toys] open to disclose a set of babies, tumbling dolls with weights, or old men might open so that they could be used as money-boxes.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 166:
text: Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 13:
synonyms: reveal
unveil
glosses: To uncover, physically expose to view.
examples: text: Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose.
ref: 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto II:
text: If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, page 1:
text: Skogan's study is based on weak data. Worse yet, he fails to disclose […] that his data reveal no statistically significant relationship between disorder and crime with regard to four out of five crime variables. Skogan only […] discusses the results of the one test that supports the […] theory
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
text: I feel duty bound to disclose I'm trans. I have a certain emotional investment in the relationship, [so] I've decided I have to disclose, and it scares me.
ref: 2013, Anne Cognito, Sunlight in the Darkness : My life as a trans woman, page 100:
text: Disclosing to a child his or her own HIV-positive status is yet another complicated process. Who should disclose and when and how that person should do it are prominent questions […]
ref: 2013, Pranee Liamputtong, Stigma, Discrimination and Living with HIV/AIDS, page 83:
synonyms: reveal
unveil
divulge
publish
impart
qualifier: occasionally intransitive
glosses: To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal (something).
Synonyms: sense: to expose to the knowledge of others
word: bring to light
word: expose
word: reveal
sense: to make known, state openly
word: impart
word: make known
word: publish
Derived terms: disclosable
discloser
disclosive
predisclose
redisclose
undisclose
undisclosing
Related terms: disclosure