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Definition of "uncover" []

  • To remove the cover from: uncovered the saucepan. (verb-transitive)
  • To manifest or disclose; reveal: uncovered new evidence. (verb-transitive)
  • To remove the hat from, as in respect or reverence. (verb-transitive)
  • To remove a cover. (verb-intransitive)
  • To bare the head in respect or reverence. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "uncover" in a sentence
  • "The uncover is watchable usually because a so ridiculous."
  • "Every bit of knowledge they uncover is one more part of an infinite amount of knowledge of God's creation, and therefore part of God."
  • "Understanding this, it was shocking to further uncover the Latin word tueor 'to look at, behold'."