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revelar — 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.
  • denote verb To be a sign or indication of something.
  • develop verb To grow or change gradually into a more advanced state.
  • disclose verb To reveal information that was previously secret or unknown.
  • expose verb To uncover or reveal something that was hidden, especially something wrong or shameful.
  • reveal verb To show or make known something that was hidden or secret.
  • unveil verb To remove a covering and reveal something hidden.

Senses

revelar 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.
  • denote (transitive) To make overt.
  • develop (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
  • lay bare (figuratively) To expose to view, reveal, uncover.
  • reveal (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.

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.

denote — full definition

  1. verb To be a sign or indication of something.
  2. verb To mean or represent something literally, as a word or symbol does.

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