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/ənkˈəvərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Uncover v. t. (past & past part. uncovered; pres. part. uncovering)

To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. "To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation."

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.

To take off the hat or cap; to bare the head in token of respect. "We are forced to uncover after them."

To remove the covers from dishes, or the like. "Uncover, dogs, and lap."

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Etymology of 'Uncovering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Uncovering" Quotes from Famous Books

... listening to your own crazy nonsense? All through your childhood you've sat there and made up stories and looked out for the ship! We shall soon have had enough of it! And you let Pelle sit there and watch you uncovering your youth—aren't you ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... ordered the drum to be beat, and all the men to form in line in marching order, with their locks TIED UP IN THE WATERPROOF. I requested Mrs. Baker to stand behind me, and to point out any man who should attempt to uncover his locks, when I should give the order to lay down their arms. The act of uncovering the locks would prove his intention, in which event I intended to shoot him immediately, and take my chance with the rest of the conspirators. I had quite determined that these scoundrels should not rob me of my own arms and ammunition, ...

— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker

... night! I saw all at once; but in an instant my whole soul centered in one spot; for there wrapped in a bloody guard cloak, was my husband's body! How I passed the few yards from my saddle to the place I never knew. I remember uncovering his head and seeing a face crusted with gore from a dreadful wound across the temple. I put my hand on the bloody face; 'twas warm; and an unknown voice begged for water; a small camp-kettle was lying near, and a stream of water was close ...

— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler

... wonder at the steady purpose behind it all. We used to believe that the love for the young girl that suddenly blooms forth in the callow youth was an entirely new affair, something suddenly planted in him as he developed into manhood; but now we know, thanks to the uncovering of human nature by the painstaking investigations of the psycho-analytic school of psychologists, that the seeds of the love-life are planted, not in puberty, but with the beginning of life itself. Looked at ...

— Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy • Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury

... the youth, arresting the lifted arm of his guard and uncovering his head with his own hand. "There is no motive for concealment now, sir," he continued, meeting without flinching the kindling eye of the baron. "I ...

— The Truce of God - A Tale of the Eleventh Century • George Henry Miles

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