uncovered
They uncovered a plot to destabilize the government.他们揭露了一起企图颠覆政府的阴谋。
The investigation uncovered some interesting information on Mr Parkinson.
Police officers uncovered an intricate web of deceit.
While digging the foundations builders uncovered some important archaeological remains.
It will be interesting to see what this investigation uncovers.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Revealing secrets & becoming known
anti-secrecy
backchannel
bare
bare your heart/soulidiom
blow someone's coveridiom
blow/take the lid off somethingidiom
declassify
divulge
hold
huddle
kiss
put the word outidiom
rat
rat on someone/something
reintroduce
revealingly
state's evidence
surface
tip
unravel

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Finding and discovering
Coverings and layers
Archaeology
Digging

uncover | American Dictionary

uncover
verb[ T ]
us/ʌnˈkʌv·ər/
to remove what is covering something, or to discover what was hidden:
uncover the pot
It’s the press’s responsibility to uncover the truth.

Examples of uncover

uncover
She uncovers the world of competitive politics which so fractured the gentry community.
We have argued that our thesis does not generate the unpalatable result that all (even ordinary) assertions ought to be uncovered.
The abstract patterns uncovered by a 'cliché learner' could very well capture the implicit knowledge of how to combine the strategies employed by these meta-heuristics.
In particular, he described some underlying principles uncovered in these networks, such as robustness, precision and noise-resistance.
Additionally, if the radio broadcast were uncovered, that would suggest that normative coverage can be difficult to determine in a rather surprising way.
Therefore, uncovering the existence of a mutually acceptable bargaining space becomes challenging.
More specifically, we have shown that on the two most promising characterizations, there are substantially (but not dominantly) situationaltering utterances that ought to be uncovered.
Perhaps the results he uncovers here are not evidence of cross-linguistic systematicity in register variation, but of the consistency of his own imagination.
King's method then applies a statistical model to the information uncovered in this procedure.
The actors improvised the scenes until the moment where the husband returns at night, after the wife has uncovered the mystery of the letters.
The market-driven nature of news leaves some stories uncovered, many people uninformed, and most journalists a bit frustrated and unsatisfied.
In such a case, however, the result that the utterance in question should be uncovered (because it is significantly obligation-enacting) is no longer obviously wrong.
At least some substantially situationaltering utterances that are not also dominantly situation-altering (in this second sense) ought to be uncovered.
To see why, recall that only the survey data uncovered a libertarian-traditional dimension.
Many regard his unique approach to uncovering the meaning of religion as unconventional and unsystematic.
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