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uncloak

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un·cloak  (n-klk)
tr.v. un·cloaked, un·cloak·ing, un·cloaks
1. To remove a cloak or cover from.
2. To expose; reveal.
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Verb1.uncloakuncloak - reveal the true nature of; "The journal article unmasked the corrupt politician"
unmask
debunk, expose - expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims"
2.uncloakuncloak - remove a cloak from                  
take off - remove clothes; "take off your shirt--it's very hot in here"


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A creature that is just to tell a girl not to wet her feet, and when to cloak and uncloak, and to help tear the check-book out of money, is no more of a mother than old Simonds was of a Solomon, when he made that will which every one of us knows by heart quite as well as he knows the constitution.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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