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uncloak

verb

Etymology

From un- + cloak.

  1. derived from *klokkos✻
  2. derived from clocca — “travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”
  3. derived from cloque
  4. derived from cloke
  5. prefixed as uncloak — “un + cloak”

Definitions

  1. To remove a cloak or cover from

    To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal.

    • And will none have so much Charity, so much Zeal for publick Concern, as to uncloak this Impostour, and shew the dazled World what it is it thus bows to?
    • She attended all our guests, most rigorously insisted on uncloaking and unshawling them, whether they would or not; […]

  2. To remove one's cloak.

    • Nay, but my fireside's not the deck—I am mistress here; so let me uncloak thee." She seized his cloak, and, not without a slight resistance on his part, unclasped the collar, and threw it aside.

  3. To become visible again by turning off a cloaking device.

    • Don't try to target the Klingons as they uncloak, you won't have time. Just use the phasers to make a nofly zone between us and the Takagi.

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