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unvaile

unvaile is the obsolete spelling of unveil.

Meaning of unveil

Verb

unveil (third-person singular simple present unveils, present participle unveiling, simple past and past participle unveiled)

  1. (transitive) To remove a veil from; to uncover; to reveal something hidden.
    • The Schools of Jurisprudence of Abu Hanifa, Al-Shafaii and Malik agree that the woman is permitted to unveil her face and hands in the streets in front of the strangers. However, if this display of the face does rouse temptation and charm, the woman has to veil her face as she does the rest of her...1996, Status of women in Islam, Status of women in Islam, page 91
  2. (transitive) To show, especially for the first time.
    • The car company are going to unveil the new sports car model next month.
  3. (intransitive) To remove a veil; to reveal oneself.

Forms of unvaile

third-person singular presentunvailes
present participleunvailing
past participleunvailed
pastunvailed

Questions about unvaile

What is unvaile the obsolete spelling of?
Unvaile is the obsolete spelling of unveil.

Words near unvaile in the dictionary

  1. unvacillating
  2. unvacuolated
  3. unvacuumed
  4. unvague
  5. unvail
  6. unvaile
  7. unvailed
  8. unvailes
  9. unvailing
  10. unvails
  11. unvain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unvaile (page history and authors); unveil (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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