Entry Word: reveal

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to make known (as information previously kept secret) <at the end of the book, the detective reveals the identity of the mysterious stranger>

Synonyms bare, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, spill, tell, unbosom, uncloak, uncover, unmask, unveil

Related Words debunk, show up; unclothe, undrape; advertise, announce, blaze, broadcast, declare, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, sound; betray, blab, give away, leak, let on; inform, squeal, talk; communicate, impart, relate; acknowledge, admit, avow, concede, confess, own; disinter, unearth

Phrases spill the beans (about)

Near Antonyms camouflage, disguise; gild, gloss (over), varnish, whitewash; becloud, bedim, befog, cloud, darken, eclipse, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shade

Antonyms cloak, conceal, cover (up), enshroud, hide, mask, shroud, veil

2 to make known (something abstract) through outward signs <a habitual smirk that reveals his contempt for other people> — see show 2