uncover

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

   uncover your belly

2. 2
   verb

   To remove a cover from.

   The model railway was uncovered.

3. 3
   verb

   To reveal the identity of.

   The murderer has finally been uncovered.

4. 4
   verb

   To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.

   To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.

5. 5
   verb

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   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.

7. 7
   verb

   make visible

8. 8
   verb

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

Etymology

From Middle English uncoveren, equivalent to un- + cover.