to come to (also †in, †on) (the) light: to be revealed, disclosed, made visible, or made known.

intransitive. To become clear or manifest.

transitive. To exhibit, display, or manifest practically (a feeling, quality, capacity, etc.); hence, to exercise, practise, perform, do. Obsolete.

intransitive. To open (up or out); to spread out or expand; to become patent or plain, etc.

intransitive. Esp. of new or secret information: to be revealed; to come to light. Obsolete.

figurative. Of thoughts, emotions, latent forces, etc.: To find utterance or manifestation suddenly, esp. after long repression or concealment…

intransitive. To transpire. Obsolete.

to take vent, in various figurative or transferred senses. Obsolete. Of news, etc.: To become known, to be divulged or let out.

To become known, be divulged. Obsolete. rare.

The body of a murdered man was supposed to bleed afresh when the murderer approached, and thus to reveal his guilt: hence, of a crime: to bleed = to…

figurative. To rise into notice, come forth from obscurity; also, to issue from a state of subjection, suffering, embarrassment, etc. Also said of…

figurative. to get (also have) vent, = sense 4a. Obsolete.

to getor take wind: to be revealed or divulged, become known, transpire. Now rare.

to stand (†appear) confessed: i.e. made known, revealed, open to recognition.

intransitive. To burst forth, become known.

intransitive. figurative. To transpire, emerge; to become public. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. ‘To escape from secrecy to notice’ (Johnson); to become known, esp. by obscure channels, or in spite of secrecy being intended; to…

intransitive. Of a thing or quality: to become evident or apparent; to show itself prominently.

intransitive. Originally and chiefly U.S. To come to light, become known. Frequently with it as anticipatory subject and that-clause as complement…

intransitive. To open out from a rolled-up state, to become unrolled. Also figurative.

intransitive. To leak out, to become known. Scottish.

figurative. (after sense 2c) Of hidden agencies, etc.: To come to the surface, become manifest.

A position or place situated before something or towards a spectator; forward position or situation… to come to the front: to become conspicuous…

intransitive. To become evident or apparent; to occur.

intransitive. To be discovered, become widely known, come out. Chiefly English regional (north-eastern).

intransitive. With non-referential it as subject and that clause as complement. U.S. To become known or be revealed; to transpire.

to comeor crawl out of the woodwork and variants, to come out of hiding; to emerge from obscurity. So to crawl (back) into the woodwork and…