UNVEILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unveiled mean? 

• UNVEILED (adjective)
  The adjective UNVEILED has 1 sense:

1. revealed; especially by having a veil removed

  Familiarity information: UNVEILED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNVEILED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Revealed; especially by having a veil removed

Context example:

applauding the unveiled statue of Winston Churchill

Similar:

disclosed (made known (especially something secret or concealed))

undraped (stripped of drapery)

Antonym:

veiled (having or as if having a veil or concealing cover)

 Context examples 

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)

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 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)

Brazil's National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro, unveiled the details surrounding the discovery of hundreds of remains of pterosaur bones and 300 eggs—some of them with preserved embryos—in China.

(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)

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)

The consequence was, that when the moon, which was full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that space in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the unveiled panes, her glorious gaze roused me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)