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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reveal \Re*veal"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Revealed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Revealing}.] [F. r['e]v['e]ler, L. revelare, revelatum, to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum a veil. See {Veil}.]
1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. --Waller.
2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).
Syn: To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show.
Usage: See {Communicate}. -- {Reveal}, {Divulge}. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. ''Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered.'' --Locke. ''A tragic history of facts divulged.'' --Wordsworth.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
revealed
adjective: no longer concealed; uncovered as by opening a curtain; 'discovered' is archaic and primarily a theater term; "the scene disclosed was of a moonlit forest" [syn: {discovered}, {disclosed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "revealed": Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, apocalyptic, apostolic, apparent, bald, bare, beholdable, canonical, detectable, discernible, disclosed, evangelic, evangelistic, evident, exposed, exposed to view, gospel, hanging out, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, insight, inspired, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, open, open as day, open to all, open to view, outcropping, overt, perceivable, perceptible, prophetic, recognizable, revelational, scriptural, seeable, showing, textual, textuary, theopneustic, to be seen, unclassified, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unhidden, viewable, visible, visual, witnessable
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