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单词 uncovering
释义 unˈcovering, vbl. n.
[f. uncover v.]
The action of the verb, in various senses.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. v. xxvii. 137 [In acute fevers] vncouerynge and puttynge out of bare armes is token of deth.1598Florio, Scomiglio, an vncouering, an vnhilling.1611Cotgr., Descouvrement, a discouering, vncouering, detecting, disclosing.1647T. Moore (title), A Uncovering of Mysterious Deceits.1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 70 The uncovering of the established and fruitful face of things.1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 414 That the sitting and rising, the covering and the uncovering, should have been regulated by exactly the same etiquette.1895Athenæum 5 Oct. 460/2 To carry out a complete uncovering of the immense accumulations of rubbish.
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