0 past simple and past participle of uncover
1 to discover something secret or hidden or remove something covering something else:
They uncovered a plot to destabilize the government.
The investigation uncovered some interesting information on Mr Parkinson.
While digging the foundations builders uncovered some important archaeological remains.
It will be interesting to see what this investigation uncovers.
Experiments with doubly driven film flow, in which gravitational and surface tension gradient stresses are competing, have uncovered some new phenomena.
There is clearly a lot of old wine in new bottles here, and a lot of uncovered ground for theoretical integration and clarification.
Studies of cetaceans have uncovered a number of patterns of behaviour and vocalizations, which some cetologists have ascribed to cultural processes.