Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To remove a veil or covering from.
  • intransitive verb To disclose; reveal.
  • intransitive verb To take off one's veil.
  • intransitive verb To reveal oneself.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To remove a veil from; uncover; disclose to view; reveal: as, to unveil a statue.
  • To become unveiled; be disclosed to view; remove a veil; reveal one's self.
  • Also unvail.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.
  • transitive verb To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb remove the cover from
  • verb make visible
  • verb remove the veil from

Etymologies

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un- +‎ veil

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