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Word entry · 8 letters

disclose

Best crossword clue

"Make known"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /dɪsˈkləʊz/Part of speech verbSorted cdeilossStarts with DEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Word origin

From Middle English disclosen, from Middle French desclos, from Old French desclore, itself from Vulgar Latin disclaudere, from Latin dis- + claudere (“to close, shut”) or as a variant of discludo, discludere (cf. disclude). By surface analysis, dis- + close.

Used in a sentence

  • The estrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
  • The shells being broken, […] the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
  • And it seemed to me that the dream smote the roof above my bed, and the roof opened and disclosed the outer dark, and in the dark travelled a bearded star, and the night was quick with fiery signs.

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