disclose
//dɪsˈkləʊz//
Forms
- present (v1)
- disclose
- past (v2)
- disclosed
- past participle (v3)
- disclosed
- present participle
- disclosing
- 3rd person singular
- discloses
Definitions
1.To uncover; physically expose to view.
- Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
- The shells being broken, […] the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
- 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.
2.To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known; state openly; reveal (something).
- Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose.
- If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4374
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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).
By surface analysis, dis- + close.