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onthullen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
  • disclose verb To reveal information that was previously secret or unknown.
  • discover verb To find or learn something for the first time.
  • elicit verb To draw out a response, reaction, or piece of information from someone, often through careful questioning.
  • reveal verb To show or make known something that was hidden or secret.
  • unfold verb To open out something that was folded.
  • unveil verb To remove a covering and reveal something hidden.

Senses

onthullen is used for these senses in English:

  • betray (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
  • discover (transitive, now, rare) To expose, uncover.
  • elicit To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
  • reveal (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
  • unfold (intransitive) To turn out; to happen; to develop.
  • unfold (transitive) To lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to reveal.

betray — full definition

  1. verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
  2. verb To reveal something unintentionally.

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