DISCLOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disclose mean? 

• DISCLOSE (verb)
  The verb DISCLOSE has 2 senses:

1. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

2. reveal to view as by removing a cover

  Familiarity information: DISCLOSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCLOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disclose    ... he / she / it discloses   
Past simple: disclosed   
Past participle: disclosed   
-ing form: disclosing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap

Context example:

The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings

Hypernyms (to "disclose" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Cause:

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Verb group:

break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disclose"):

blackwash (bring (information) out of concealment)

muckrake (explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures)

blow (cause to be revealed and jeopardized)

out (reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle)

come out; come out of the closet; out (to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality)

spring (produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly)

betray; bewray (reveal unintentionally)

confide (reveal in private; tell confidentially)

leak (tell anonymously)

babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)

reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They disclose that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

disclosure (the speech act of making something evident)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reveal to view as by removing a cover

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

disclose; expose; uncover

Context example:

The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set

Hypernyms (to "disclose" is one way to...):

bring out; reveal; unveil (make visible)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disclose"):

face (turn so as to expose the face)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

But the servant, who was well disposed to the huntsmen, went to them, and disclosed the project.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Scientists have disclosed new steps toward using natural adhesives made by the dusky Arion slug (Arion subfuscus) in medical applications such as in closing skin wounds and reducing scarring.

(New studies may bring slug-made glues closer to use in medicine, Wikinews)

An official legal document completed by investigators, sub investigators, their spouses, and their dependents to disclose any financial arrangement between the person and the sponsors of a clinical study.

(Financial Disclosure Form, NCI Thesaurus)

He must disclose all, or he is a traitor to his service.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought that now was the time for Van Helsing to warn him not to disclose our plans to her; but he took no notice.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I believed my eyes without question, and yet I was for the moment stunned by what they disclosed to me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was then disclosed in the following manner.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Studies have disclosed two types of receptors for this family of peptide hormones.

(Insulin-like growth factor receptor, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The number of reviewers, the reviewing procedures and criteria, and the use made of the reviewers' opinions may vary, and therefore each reviewing organization/committee has to publicly disclose its policies.

(Peer-reviewed Scientific Project, NCI Thesaurus)

Holmes plucked it off and disclosed the statuesque face of a handsome and spiritual woman of middle age.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)