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DictionaryRoot: claudere
Latin

claudere

close or shut

Forms

  • claudere
  • claus- — The form used for completed action.
  • -clud- — The vowel changed in Latin compounds.
  • -clus- — The corresponding changed completed-action form.

Origin

Related to Latin clavis, “key,” in an older Indo-European family associated with closing.

Note

Closing can suggest ending an argument, keeping something in, or keeping something out.

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verb

disclose

dis-KLOHZ/dɪsˈkləʊz/

To reveal information that was hidden or unknown.

Lifting the cover discloses the vase's successful repair to the attentive companion.

Adult lifts cover from a previously hidden repaired vase to reveal it to an attentive companion, making previously unknown facts visible.
Etymology
disOld Frenchaway, apart; undoing or absence
+closeLatinclose or shut

Dis- reverses the idea of shutting: to disclose is to open or uncover. That image connects exposing something to view with making previously hidden information known.

In context

SOAS University of London33:39
every woman must disclose her pregnancy even at the earliest stages so that if her husband were to die she would not be accused of fornication or adultery
Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration

More examples

  • She disclosed the agreement.
  • They are disclosing their findings.
  • The form discloses the relevant facts.

Forms

disclose · discloses · disclosed · disclosing

disclosure noun — the revealing of information

Similar words

reveal
The ordinary broad equivalent.
divulge
Makes private or sensitive information known.