unshroud

[ uhn-shroud ]

verb (used with object)

1. to divest of a shroud or something that shrouds or hides:

   to unshroud a corpse; to unshroud a mystery.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unshroud¹

First recorded in 1575–85; un- ² + shroud

Example Sentences

For the first time, Webb was able to unshroud the white dwarf — which appears as the red dot in the picture above — from the dust that surrounds it.

From Los Angeles Times

Gilliam seems reluctant to unshroud her intimate memories and emotions.

From Washington Post

This polarity—between a tragic sense of the world and the ability to make of it a kind of punch line—might help to unshroud, if only slightly, an enigma at the heart of McWhorter’s book.

From The New Yorker

But what's much harder is to write an avant-garde novel about real life, a novel whose experimental qualities unshroud something recognisable and genuine about our shared experience that a traditional novel would have missed.

From The Guardian

Unshroud, un-shrowd′, v.t. to remove the shroud from, to disclose.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bare
• bring to light
• disclose
• display
• open
• prove
• uncover
• unmask