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reveal
/rɪˈviːl/ verb [T]Definition
TELL › to give someone a piece of information that is surprising or that was previously secret: [+ that] It was revealed in this morning's papers that the couple intend to marry.
SEE › to allow something to be seen that, until then, had been hidden: His shirt came up at the back, revealing an expanse of white skin.
(Definition of reveal verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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