disclose
/dɪsˈkləʊz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.84 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Some [nest toys] open to disclose a set of babies, tumbling dolls with weights, or old men might open so that they could be used as money-boxes."
- "Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside."
- "Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose."
Etymology
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.