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Uncover   /ənkˈəvər/   Listen
verb
Uncover  v. t.  (past & past part. uncovered; pres. part. uncovering)  
1.
To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
2.
To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. "To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation."
3.
To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of; as, to uncover one's head; to uncover one's self.


Uncover  v. i.  
1.
To take off the hat or cap; to bare the head in token of respect. "We are forced to uncover after them."
2.
To remove the covers from dishes, or the like. "Uncover, dogs, and lap."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Uncover" Quotes from Famous Books



... dead! To uncover, even to their own eyes only, the fact that lay hidden behind those words was like personating the priest and listening at ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine
... "Don't uncover yourselves, my lads," hastily commanded the corporal; "all the fellows want now is to see us exposed, that they may have ...
— Hardscrabble - The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare • John Richardson
... procedure that gives largest promise of substantial fact is to attempt to uncover some of the fundamental influences that operate upon the psychic life of the farmers of America and to notice, in so far as opportunity permits, what social elements modify the complete working ...
— Rural Problems of Today • Ernest R. Groves
... was I with this taunting, partial memory, and so sure, if the woman would but uncover her face, of instantly recognizing her, that still I hesitated. Whereupon, glancing rapidly over her shoulder into whatever place lay beyond the curtained doorway, she suddenly stepped back and vanished, drawing the curtains to with an ...
— The Hand Of Fu-Manchu - Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor • Sax Rohmer
... was produced from Comet, July 1941. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this ...
— The Street That Wasn't There • Clifford Donald Simak


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