reveal
/ɹɪˈvil/ verb A2- To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden or unknown.
- To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.
He/she/it reveals · Past revealed · Past participle revealed · -ing form revealing
Verb forms
- Base form
- reveal
- He/she/it
- reveals
- Past
- revealed
- Past participle
- revealed
- -ing form
- revealing
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But I was not then master enough of myself to know what could or ought to be revealed.
But it was not upon Corsica, the very houses of which he could distinguish; or on Sardinia; or on the Island of Elba, with its historical associations; or upon the almost imperceptible line that to the experienced eye of a sailor alone revealed the coast of Genoa the proud, and Leghorn the commercial, that he gazed.
Aided by the remaining fragment, I guessed the rest; measuring the length of the lines by those of the paper, and divining the hidden meaning by means of what was in part revealed, as we are guided in a cavern by the small ray of light above us.”
Of course he must recall the snake before the morning light revealed it to the victim.
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