disclose

From Middle English disclosen, from Middle French desclos, from Old French desclore, itself from Vulgar Latin disclaudere, from Latin dis- + claudere (“to close, shut”) or as a variant of discludo, discludere (cf. disclude).

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkləʊz/

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• Rhymes: -əʊz

disclose (third-person singular simple present discloses, present participle disclosing, simple past and past participle disclosed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
   • Francis Bacon

     The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.

2. (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.

   Synonyms: reveal, unveil

   • Woodward

     The shells being broken, […] the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.

   • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:

     Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.

3. (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.

   Synonyms: reveal, unveil, divulge, publish, impart

   • Alexander Pope

     Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose.

   • Addison

     If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.

• (to expose to the knowledge of others): bring to light, expose, reveal; See also Thesaurus:divulge
• (to make known, state openly): impart, make known, publish; See also Thesaurus:announce

• cover up
• withhold

• discloser

• disclosure

disclose (plural discloses)

1. (obsolete) A disclosure