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