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disclosing

disclosing is the present participle and gerund of disclose.

Meaning of disclose

Verb

disclose (third-person singular simple present discloses, present participle disclosing, simple past and past participle disclosed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To open up; unfasten.
    • The estrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
  2. (transitive) To uncover; physically expose to view.
    • The shells being broken, […] the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    reveal, unveil, expose
  3. (transitive, occasionally intransitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known; state openly; reveal (something).
    • Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose.1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto II

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Noun

disclosing (plural disclosings)

  1. An act of disclosure.
    • The undulation, that is, was within the disclosings, not something separate which disclosed them from without by being directed upon them.2011, Arthur Melnick, Phenomenology and the Physical Reality of Consciousness, page 47

Forms of disclosing

pluraldisclosings

Words formed from disclosing

Phrases with disclosing

Questions about disclosing

What does disclosing mean?
Disclosing means an act of disclosure.
What is disclosing the present participle and gerund of?
Disclosing is the present participle and gerund of disclose.
What part of speech is disclosing?
Disclosing is a noun.
What is the plural of disclosing?
The plural of disclosing is disclosings.

Words near disclosing in the dictionary

  1. discloser
  2. disclosers
  3. discloses
  4. disclosest
  5. discloseth
  6. disclosing
  7. disclosing tablet
  8. disclosing tablets
  9. disclosings
  10. disclosive
  11. disclost

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