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revealing

/ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/ adjective C1
  1. Informative; providing new information. · a revealing analysis
  2. Allowing more of the body to be seen than is usual. · Her shirt is rather revealing.
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“Tell me,” cried Danglars, in a tone whose bitterness Harpagon alone has been capable of revealing—“tell me that you wish to despoil me of all; it will be sooner over than devouring me piecemeal.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1083 · C1
“Without revealing himself?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 511 · C1
More than once she thought of revealing all to her grandmother, and she would not have hesitated a moment, if Maximilian Morrel had been named Albert de Morcerf or Raoul de Château-Renaud; but Morrel was of plebeian extraction, and Valentine knew how the haughty Marquise de Saint-Méran despised all who were not noble.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 748 · C1
“Yes, there _is_ need!” The child raised her head quickly, revealing a tear-stained face and trembling lips.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 31 · C1

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