unveil
pronunciation
How to pronounce unveil in British English:
UK [ˌʌnˈveɪl]
How to pronounce unveil in American English:
US [ˌʌnˈveɪl]
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- Verb:
- remove the veil from
- make visible
- remove the cover from
Word Origin
- unveil (v.)
- 1590s, in reference to sight, "to make clear," from un- (2) "opposite of" + veil (v.). Sense of "to display or reveal" (something) is from 1650s. Related: Unveiled; unveiling.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Mushrooms and mushroom clouds are frequent motifs and he recently travelled to qatar to unveil a 100-metre painting inspired by fukushima .
- 2. Tim geithner , us treasury secretary , will now unveil the new troubled asset relief programme guidelines tomorrow .
- 3. This prompted the government to unveil a large fiscal stimulus in late 2008 , which should help to boost growth in the second half of this year .
- 4. Or we crafted the perfect design , only to watch it unveil its gross imperfections in the harsh realities of a production environment . And we became better programmers because of it .
- 5. That suggests to market watchers that china might unveil some sort of economic tightening move , because a saturday release could indicate an effort soften the data 's market impact .