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, tattle, sing, rat, snitch [all 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) 480a; 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 (or 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[obs3], unbeguile[obs3]; disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of; dsillusionner.
     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 &c. itself; 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.

     #530.  Ambush [Means of concealment]. —­ N. camouflage; mimicry; hiding
place; secret place, secret drawer; recess, hold, holes and corners; closet, crypt, adytum[obs3], abditory[obs3], oubliette.
     ambush, ambuscade; stalking horse; lurking hole, lurking place; secret
path, back stairs; retreat &c. (refuge) 666.
     screen, cover, shade, blinker; veil, curtain, blind, cloak, cloud.
     mask, visor, vizor[obs3], disguise, masquerade dress, domino.
     pitfall &c. (source of danger) 667; trap &c. (snare) 545. 
     V. blend in, blend into the background.
     lie in ambush &c (hide oneself) 528; lie in wait for, lurk; set a trap
for &c (deceive) 545; ambuscade, ambush.
     [transitive] camouflage. 
     Adj. camouflaged, hidden, concealed. 
     Adv. aux aguets[obs3].

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