deterration†, revealment, revelation; exposition, exposure; expose;
whole truth; telltale &c (news) 532.
acknowledgment, avowal; confession, confessional; shrift.
bursting of a bubble; denouement.
[person who discloses a secret] tattletale, snitch, fink, stool
pigeon, canary.
V. disclose, discover, dismask†; draw the veil, draw aside the veil,
lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear
aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover,
unseal, unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay
bare; expose; open, open up; bare, bring to light.
divulge, reveal, break; squeal [Coll.], tattle [Coll.], sing
[Coll.], rat [Coll.], snitch [Coll.]; let into the secret; reveal the
secrets of the prison house; tell &c (inform) 527; breathe, utter,
blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans,
let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school;
come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out,
vent, whisper about; speak out &c (make manifest) 525; make public &c
531; unriddle &c (find out) 480.1; split.
acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to,
confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean
breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind,
disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's
heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind
[Fr.]; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth,
speak the truth; turn King's evidence, Queen's evidence; acknowledge
the corn [U.S.].
raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask,
throw off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive†, unbeguile†; disabuse,
set right, correct, open the eyes of; désillusionner.
be disclosed &c; transpire, come to light; come in sight &c (be
visible) 446; become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep
out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors;
discover itself &c; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.
Adj. disclosed &c v.; open, public &c 525.
Int. out with it!,
Phr. the murder is out; a light breaks in upon one; the scales fall
from one's eyes; the eyes are opened.