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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uncover
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
expose/uncover corruption (=show that it exists)
▪ The newspaper prided itself on exposing corruption in government.
find out/discover/uncover the truth
▪ She was determined to find out the truth.
uncover/discover a plot
▪ They didn’t suspect that their plot had been uncovered.
uncover/expose a scandal
▪ The scandal was uncovered by a journalist.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
recently
▪ Police recently uncovered a ring that was selling crack through two girls living in the tiny town of Downs, population 620.
▪ The towering buildings on either side are as solemn and silent as any of those monumental guardians recently uncovered along the Nile.
■ NOUN
evidence
▪ After investigating Rizvi's affairs, police claimed they had uncovered evidence that underworld money had financed his mercurial film career.
▪ If the hearings uncover some incontrovertible evidence of corruption he could look like a defender of the indefensible.
▪ We should remember this later when we uncover fairly grisly evidence for possible human sacrifice in the burial of mummies from Zaghunluq.
▪ And other research groups have uncovered evidence of dyslexia-inducing mutations in genes on chromosomes two and 15.
▪ Detectives have uncovered evidence that the rapist comes from a small but precise location within the city.
fact
▪ Such a check should uncover facts such as a past prison sentence or a person's credit status.
minutes
▪ Bring to the boil, stir once, and boil uncovered for 12 minutes.
▪ Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for 25 minutes.
▪ Allow to rise uncovered for 30 minutes.
▪ Simmer, uncovered, another 30 minutes.
▪ Bake, uncovered, for 60 minutes.
▪ Set aside, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
▪ Place in the center of the oven and roast, uncovered, for 20 minutes.
plot
▪ They suggested Colonel Wong may have been detained because, as head of military intelligence, he failed to uncover the plot.
▪ Whether Richard had really uncovered a Woodville plot against himself is doubtful.
police
▪ Pitch invasion foiled ... police uncover soccer hooligans' plan.
▪ Read in studio Police have uncovered a murder victim's hidden life after a national television appeal for fresh information.
▪ After investigating Rizvi's affairs, police claimed they had uncovered evidence that underworld money had financed his mercurial film career.
▪ Under state law if police uncover clear signs of a domestic quarrel, including injuries, they have to bring charges.
research
▪ The research is to uncover and outline all the elements upon which multiple territorial entities could arise.
▪ Thorough market research would have uncovered this.
▪ And other research groups have uncovered evidence of dyslexia-inducing mutations in genes on chromosomes two and 15.
▪ And even in the more familiar mode of verbal language, research has uncovered some interesting and illuminating aspects.
ring
▪ Police recently uncovered a ring that was selling crack through two girls living in the tiny town of Downs, population 620.
truth
▪ He promised Markov's widow his support in uncovering the truth about the killing.
▪ It was claimed that her stories were not so innocent because she was using them to uncover some uncomfortable political truths.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A search of their luggage uncovered two pistols.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But when he uncovered the picture, he gave a cry of pain.
▪ Modern men and women work assiduously at sites like Uxmal to uncover every clue.
▪ More skeletons of probable plague victims were uncovered on the Rock House site in July 1987.
▪ Should he uncover it, he wondered?
▪ The research is to uncover and outline all the elements upon which multiple territorial entities could arise.
▪ Thwarting Chan and the girls in their endeavor to uncover the gold are roving bands of unaffiliated bad guys.
▪ We walked into this uncovered base camp.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uncover

Uncover \Un*cov"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Uncovered; p. pr. & vb. n. Uncovering.] [1st pref. un- + cover.]

  1. To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

  2. To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. ``To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.''
    --Milton.

  3. To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of; as, to uncover one's head; to uncover one's self.

Uncover

Uncover \Un*cov"er\, v. i.

  1. To take off the hat or cap; to bare the head in token of respect.

    We are forced to uncover after them.
    --Addison.

  2. To remove the covers from dishes, or the like.

    Uncover, dogs, and lap.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uncover

early 14c., from un- (2) "reverse of" + cover (v.). Earliest use is figurative; literal sense is attested from late 14c. Related: Uncovered; uncovering.

Wiktionary
uncover

vb. 1 to remove the cover of an object 2 To reveal the identity of 3 To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. 4 (cx archaic English) To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of.

WordNet
uncover

  1. v. make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings out the best in her"; "The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings" [syn: bring out, unveil, reveal]

  2. remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body; "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway" [syn: expose] [ant: cover]

Wikipedia
Uncover

Uncover may refer to:

  • Uncover (song), song by Swedish singer Zara Larsson
  • Uncover (EP), EP by Swedish singer Zara Larsson
  • UnCover, an online database at the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
Uncover (song)

"Uncover" is a song Swedish singer Zara Larsson from her debut extended play, Introducing (2013). The song was released on 21 January 2013. It was written by Marcus Sepehrmanesh, Robert Habolin and Gavin Jones and it was produced by Habolin. It initially charted on DigiListan charts, SR P3 charts for downloads on 27 January 2013 and eventually charted on Sverigetopplistan, the official Swedish Singles Chart on 22 February 2013 becoming number one. The single also charted in Norway reaching number one as well. In July 2013, the song was certified sextuple platinum in Sweden by Universal Music Sweden.

"Uncover" was also featured on Larsson's Scandinavian debut studio album, 1 (2014) and her international debut extended play, Uncover (2015).

Uncover (EP)

Uncover is an extended play (EP) by Swedish singer Zara Larsson. The EP was released on 16 January 2015 by TEN Music Group, Epic Records, and Sony Music Entertainment. It is her first release internationally outside of Europe. The EP features six songs taken from her debut studio album, 1.

Usage examples of "uncover".

The quickest and most effective way to fill the gaps uncovered by the anthrax threats is to immediately expand federal grants to allow states and local public health offices to address the challenges that face them.

If Josiah Bartram was killed, it is our duty to go the limit to uncover the murderer.

Robins uncovered potentially exculpatory evidence attorneys would use in future bids to get Bembenek a new trial.

Here the intense experiential disclosures do not have to be worked into a subjective structure already present, but rather have to be part of a subjective and intersubjective process of building a structure not yet in existence: experiences have to be part, not of structural uncovering, but of structural building.

Once Plover stopped laughing, I asked him if he had any idea how to uncover this murky connection between the Bernswallow family and Carolyn McCoy, who must have hyphenated at a later date.

Mankin because Mankin had uncovered their conspiracy to take over our planet?

She was on her way to Cales Coves, hoping to uncover some more of that cave drawing, and we were walking along the waterfront to where the Martires Atlante runs out past the Club Maritime to the old fort that marks the entrance proper to Mahon harbour.

Any document, any record, any set of directions could be converted into microfilm, and a tiny piece of material on which that was recorded could be hidden anywhere and never be uncovered by anything but blind luck.

She uncovered a misshaped cookpot and poked in it with a long wooden spoon.

But anybody who uncovered the overdrive coil could see that it was almost rewound.

After the other lambs had taken all the pictures they wanted, Ngata fell to studying the guts of the phytosaur as Carlyle and Smith uncovered them.

Then he recalled that on that memorable night of the Potlatch dance the White Chief had admitted there was gold, but while the tides occasionally uncovered pay-sand rich beyond most placers, there would follow months when not a single color showed up in the sands of Kon Klayu.

That many of the tarnished were in fact blameless did not matter, because Lo Prek had uncovered a pattern that led to the flawless conclusion that an Imperial conspiracy was behind the crime wave.

No one then knew the probationer had uncovered the chieftain of Al Qaeda in Britain.

Last time you left it uncovered the frost cracked the bulb of the reticle lamp.