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paljastaa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bare adj Not covered by clothing, decoration, or any other covering; exposed.
  • betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
  • debunk verb To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something; to refute.
  • dedicate verb To commit oneself or one's time fully to a particular purpose or cause.
  • denote verb To be a sign or indication of something.
  • disclose verb To reveal information that was previously secret or unknown.
  • discover verb To find or learn something for the first time.
  • divulge verb To reveal information, especially something secret, so that it becomes known.
  • exhume verb To dig up a body that has been buried.
  • expose verb To uncover or reveal something that was hidden, especially something wrong or shameful.
  • falsify verb To alter information dishonestly, usually to deceive someone.
  • find out phrasal verb To learn something you did not previously know, either by asking, checking or discovering it by chance.
  • out adv Away from the inside, a home, or a central point.
  • rake noun A garden tool with a row of teeth on a long handle, used to gather leaves or debris or to smooth soil.
  • reveal verb To show or make known something that was hidden or secret.
  • shop noun A place, physical or online, where goods or services are sold.
  • unfold verb To open out something that was folded.
  • unmask verb To remove a mask, literally or figuratively, from someone.
  • unveil verb To remove a covering and reveal something hidden.

Senses

paljastaa is used for these senses in English:

  • bare (transitive, sometimes, figurative) To uncover; to reveal.
  • betray (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
  • debunk (transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.
  • dedicate (transitive) To show to the public for the first time.
  • denote (transitive) To make overt.
  • discover (transitive, now, rare) To expose, uncover.
  • divulge (transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.
  • draw out To extract, to bring out, as concealed information; to elicit; to educe.

bare — full definition

  1. adj Not covered by clothing, decoration, or any other covering; exposed.
  2. adj Just enough and no more; the minimum.
  3. verb To uncover or reveal something.

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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