Hide and Reveal

Hide

Hide verb - To put into a hiding place.
Usage example: the thief had hidden the stolen jewelry under the floorboards

Reveal is an antonym for hide in topics: obscure, conceal.

Nearby Words: hideous, hiding, hideously, hided

Reveal

Reveal verb - To make known (as information previously kept secret).
Usage example: at the end of the book, the detective reveals the identity of the mysterious stranger

Hide is an antonym for reveal in topics: show, make known, disclose.

Nearby Words: revealed, revealing

Common collocations

body hide body reveal body
truth hide truth reveal truth
name hide name reveal name
relationship hide relationship reveal relationship
Other words: nature, fact, face, identity, information, secret, evidence, existence, eyes, feelings, secrets, powers, identities.

Both words in one sentence

  • The biggest reveal in the Global Guardians PBEM Universe was the fact that Stone's mother was a supervillain, and that his father abandoned him at an orphanage in order to hide him from her.
    Source: The Reveal
  • More often seen is a similar trick where a scene appears to be complete, only for a later episode to reveal that something significant happened right after the apparent end of the scene, or even reveal that the scene itself was manipulatively edited to hide something in the middle of it.
  • In Lost: Mystery of the Island, a series of four jigsaw puzzles released in 2007, Ottendorf cipher was used on each puzzle's box to hide spoilers and reveal information about the show to the fans.
Cite this Source
Reveal and Hide. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/reveal
Hide & Reveal. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/reveal>.
Reveal or Hide. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/reveal.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "hide" and "reveal" have occurred on timeline