Synonyms

uncloak

American

[uhn-klohk] / ʌnˈkloʊk /

verb (used with object)

to remove the cloak from.
to reveal; expose.

His motives were uncloaked at last.

verb (used without object)

to take off the cloak or the outer garments generally.

Etymology

Origin of uncloak

First recorded in 1590–1600; un- ² + cloak

Example Sentences

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These bubbles are small enough to sneak their hidden cargo into living cells, where the proteins uncloak and exert their therapeutic effect.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was uncloak.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2023

But future maps might uncloak such tectonic features.

From Nature • Jun. 4, 2019

Berger also taught us how to unpack what we do see, to separate the wheat from the chaff, the truth from the fiction, and to uncloak hidden ideologies in visual images.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2017

He rushed upstairs, two steps at a time, and, flinging open the door of a cupboard, began desperately to uncloak his Aphrodite.

From The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance by Partridge, Bernard

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