English Dictionary

uncover

/ʌnˈkʌvɚ/

verb

To remove a cover from. / To reveal the identity of. / To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. / (reflexive, intransitive) To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect.

She carefully uncovered the painting to reveal its true beauty.

意味（1）

To remove a cover from.

The model railway was uncovered.

意味（2）

To reveal the identity of.

The murderer has finally been uncovered.

意味（3）

To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.

To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.

意味（4）

(reflexive, intransitive) To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect.

Alfred, surprised to meet his father, whom he thought absent from home, […] stood, holding his firelock in one hand, and his hat in the other, having uncovered himself as soon as he perceived his father.

意味（5）

(reflexive, intransitive) To expose the genitalia.

The phallus had power to subdue the attacks of demons and the Evil Eye; and the female organs were potent over elemental disturbances, thus a woman uncovering herself could quell a storm.

意味（6）

(military, transitive) To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.