Disclosure
Disclosure
#529. Disclosure. -- N. disclosure; retection|; unveiling &c. v.;
deterration[obs], revealment, revelation; exposition, exposure; expose;
whole truth; telltale &c. (news) 532.
- acknowledgment, avowal; confession, confessional; shrift.
- bursting of a bubble; denouement.
- [person who discloses a secret] tattletale, snitch, fink, stool
pigeon, canary.
- V. disclose, discover, dismask|; draw the veil, draw aside the veil,
lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear
aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal,
unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose;
open, open up; bare, bring to light.
- divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch [all coll.];
let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell &c
(inform) 527; breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop,
let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales,
come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the
lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out &c. (make manifest) 525;
make public &c. 531; unriddle &c. (find out) 480a; split.
- acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess,
avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show
one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind,
disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay
bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind[Fr]; unbosom oneself, own to
the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's (or
Queen's) evidence; acknowledge the corn* [U.S.].
- raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw
off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive[obs], unbeguile[obs]; disabuse,
set right, correct, open the eyes of; desillusionner.
- be disclosed &c.; transpire, come to light; come in sight &c. (be
visible) 446; become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out,
leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover &c.
itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.
- Adj. disclosed &c. v.; open, public &c. 525.
- Int.out with it!
- Phr. the murder is out; a light breaks in upon one; the scales fall
from one's eyes; the eyes are opened.