uncovering

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.