UNVEIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unveil mean? 

• UNVEIL (verb)
  The verb UNVEIL has 3 senses:

1. remove the veil from

2. make visible

3. remove the cover from

  Familiarity information: UNVEIL used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNVEIL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they unveil    ... he / she / it unveils   
Past simple: unveiled   
Past participle: unveiled   
-ing form: unveiling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the veil from

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

Women must not unveil themselves in public in some religious societies

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

expose; uncover (remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

veil (to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make visible

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

bring out; reveal; unveil

Context example:

He brings out the best in her

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

show (make visible or noticeable)

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

disclose; expose; uncover (reveal to view as by removing a cover)

excavate; unearth (recover through digging)

trot out (bring out and show for inspection and admiration)

unfold (open to the view)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remove the cover from

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

unveil a painting

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

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

unveiling (putting on display for the first time)

 Context examples 

The Hubble image unveils a very cluttered-looking universe filled with galaxies near and far.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)

The studies unveil a new way that nervous system cells interact.

(Memory gene goes viral, National Institutes of Health)

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole's event horizon, the area beyond which light cannot escape the immense gravity of the black hole.

(The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole, NASA)

A Chinese company has unveiled a driverless bus-train hybrid that uses white lines painted on the road to navigate.

(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)

March 20 would also be a great day to unveil the re-design of your website, reveal a new software application you wrote, or give a talk at a conference.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Since the discovery in 2009 that brown fat can be active in adult humans, researchers around the world have worked to unveil ways to switch on this fat.

(Giving Brown Fat A Green Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As it celebrated its 41st anniversary Thursday (Apr. 24), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) unveiled the largest genetic repository in Latin America, which can store up to 750,000 seed samples.

(LatAm's largest gene bank unveiled in Brasília, Agência BRASIL)

The new ALMA images showcase the explosive nature in high resolution, unveiling important details about the distribution and high-velocity motion of the carbon monoxide (CO) gas inside the streamers.

(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)