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uncoverest

uncoverest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of uncover.

Meaning of uncover

Verb

uncover (third-person singular simple present uncovers, present participle uncovering, simple past and past participle uncovered)

  1. To remove a cover from.
    • The model railway was uncovered.
  2. To reveal the identity of.
    • The murderer has finally been uncovered.
  3. To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
    • To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    expose
  4. (intransitive, reflexive) To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect.
    • Alfred, surprised to meet his father, whom he thought absent from home, […] stood, holding his firelock in one hand, and his hat in the other, having uncovered himself as soon as he perceived his father.1824, Town and Country Tales, page 115
    Synonyms:
    doff
  5. (intransitive, reflexive) To expose the genitalia.
    • The phallus had power to subdue the attacks of demons and the Evil Eye; and the female organs were potent over elemental disturbances, thus a woman uncovering herself could quell a storm.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 159
  6. (transitive) To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.

Origin of uncoverest

uncover + -est

Questions about uncoverest

What is uncoverest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Uncoverest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of uncover.

Words near uncoverest in the dictionary

  1. uncoverable
  2. uncovered
  3. uncoveredness
  4. uncoverer
  5. uncoverers
  6. uncoverest
  7. uncovereth
  8. uncovering
  9. uncoverings
  10. uncovers
  11. uncovertebral

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncoverest (page history and authors); uncover (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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