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verb

Uncover v. t. (past & past part. uncovered; pres. part. uncovering)

To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. "To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation."

To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of; as, to uncover one's head; to uncover one's self.

Uncover v. i.

To take off the hat or cap; to bare the head in token of respect. "We are forced to uncover after them."

To remove the covers from dishes, or the like. "Uncover, dogs, and lap."

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Etymology of 'Uncovered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Uncovered" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Blind Man's Buff" the hands of the blind man are tied behind his back and his eyes are left uncovered. He has therefore to back on to the players before he can catch ...

— What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... computers and electrical appliances. After enjoying the world's highest growth rate from 1985 to 1995 - averaging almost 9% annually - increased speculative pressure on Thailand's currency in 1997 led to a crisis that uncovered financial sector weaknesses and forced the government to float the baht. Long pegged at 25 to the dollar, the baht reached its lowest point of 56 to the dollar in January 1998, and the economy contracted by 10.2% that same year. Thailand then entered a recovery stage, ...

— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... height far above them all still rings the soft voice of the chimes. And now the King of the Grail is borne in upon his couch and is brought to the highest place in the hall. Before him something is carried covered with purple cloth. It is the Holy Grail itself, and the time has come when it must be uncovered, that it may feed ...

— The Wagner Story Book • Henry Frost

... financial sand-bar. Also, we have heard how he gave Helen Keller to the world; for without the help of H. H. Rogers that wonderful woman would still be like unto the eyeless fish in the Mammoth Cave. As it is, her soul radiates an inward light and science stands uncovered. But there were very many other persons and institutions that received very tangible benefits from the hands ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard

... both the cap and the flowers, thanking the lad with friendly smiles; but when he saw how closely that bright face resembled his own, and how those floating curls of shining gold uncovered to the hot sunshine were but as the counterpart of his, he too glanced at his mother, whose smiling face was bent with a proud pleasure upon the pretty picture formed by the two children, and he said in his clear, ...

— In the Wars of the Roses - A Story for the Young • Evelyn Everett-Green

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