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revelate

/ˈɹɛvəleɪt/

revelate verb: to reveal.

Verb

revelate (third-person singular simple present revelates, present participle revelating, simple past and past participle revelated)

  1. (obsolete) To reveal.
    • the trueth may revelate1529, John Frith, A Pistle to the Christian Reader: The Revelation of the Anti-Christ; An Antithesis between Christ and the Pope
    • The bysshoppes were not bounde to betraye theyr prynces nor to revelate theyr councelles to the Pope.1534, Robert Barnes, Supplication

Forms of revelate

third-person singular presentrevelates
present participlerevelating
past participlerevelated
pastrevelated

Origin of revelate

Latin revēlātus, perfect passive participle of revēlō. By surface analysis this English verb can be interpreted as a back-formation from such words as revelation, revelator, and revelatory.

Questions about revelate

What does revelate mean?
Revelate means to reveal.
What part of speech is revelate?
Revelate is a verb.
How do you pronounce revelate?
Revelate is pronounced /ˈɹɛvəleɪt/.
What is the past tense of revelate?
The past tense of revelate is revelated.

Words near revelate in the dictionary

  1. revel
  2. revel-dash
  3. revel-rout
  4. revel-routs
  5. revelability
  6. revelate
  7. revelated
  8. revelates
  9. revelating
  10. revelation
  11. revelational

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