Hide and Uncover

Hide

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

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

Nearby Words: hideous, hiding, hideously, hided

Uncover

Uncover verb - To make known (as information previously kept secret).
Usage example: uncovered the location of the secret documents

Hide is an antonym for uncover in reveal topic.

Nearby Word: uncovering

Common collocations

body hide body uncover body
truth hide truth uncover truth
nature hide nature uncover nature
fact hide fact uncover fact
Other words: face, identity, information, secret, evidence, items, secrets, identities.

Both words in one sentence

  • Lu specifically wanted to hide it behind such a riddle that only a mankind united in harmony could uncover it again, but no such luck.
  • Special training has a mini-game where you have to follow the position of several fast-moving panels, and uncover them when they hide.
  • In Sharyn McCrumb's Zombies of the Gene Pool, when he suspects that the murderer's motive was to hide a skeleton in the closet, Jay Omega claims to have the phone number of one of their old lady friends and threatens to uncover the secrets himself.
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