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DISCLOSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made known (especially something secret or concealed)
Example:
the disclosed purpose of their wicked plan
Classified under:
Similar:
unveiled (revealed; especially by having a veil removed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb disclose
Context examples:
Studies have disclosed two types of receptors for this family of peptide hormones.
(Insulin-like growth factor receptor, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
We were now close in; thirty or forty strokes and we should beach her, for the ebb had already disclosed a narrow belt of sand below the clustering trees.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
On its third rising only a portion of the drawing-room was disclosed; the rest being concealed by a screen, hung with some sort of dark and coarse drapery.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I believed my eyes without question, and yet I was for the moment stunned by what they disclosed to me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was then disclosed in the following manner.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We supposed he had now eased his mind, and told the worst he knew of the cook; but, a day or two afterwards, his conscience sustained a new twinge, and he disclosed how she had a little girl, who, early every morning, took away our bread; and also how he himself had been suborned to maintain the milkman in coals.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On Monday, digital security researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of Belgium's KU Leuven university publicly disclosed a security vulnerability in the WPA2 Wi-Fi (wireless local-area networking) protocol, which they called KRACK (for Key Reinstallation Attack).
(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)
Holmes plucked it off and disclosed the statuesque face of a handsome and spiritual woman of middle age.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He unfolded it and disclosed a golden pince-nez, with two broken ends of black silk cord dangling from the end of it.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
