0 past simple and past participle of reveal
1 to make known or show something that is surprising or that was previously secret:
The committee pressed him to reveal more information.
The journalist refused to reveal her sources.
The survey reveals that two-thirds of married women earn less than their husbands.
A close inspection revealed minute cracks in the aircraft's fuselage and wings.
But isn't there something gratuitous - perhaps even patronising - in seeing it 'revealed' in various facets, often arcane, of this or that argument?
A general literature review revealed more than 1,000 systematic reviews in the general field of disease prevention and control.
The commission's own comparison of redemption values and current land prices revealed a large discrepancy.
