See unmask on Wiktionary
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"text": "The Charieſt maide is prodigall enough, / If ſhe vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.",
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"ref": "2019, Sarah Cobbe, Simple Autism Strategies for Home and School: Practical Tips, Resources and Poetry, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 49:",
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"ref": "1893, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Hannibal: a History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans […] , page 156:",
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"expansion": "un- + mask",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From un- + mask.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "unmasks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "unmasking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "unmasked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "unmasked",
"tags": [
"past"
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}
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To remove a mask from someone."
],
"links": [
[
"remove",
"remove"
],
[
"mask",
"mask"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To remove a mask from someone."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 35–36:",
"text": "The Charieſt maide is prodigall enough, / If ſhe vnmaske hir beautie to the Moone.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To expose, or reveal the true character of someone."
],
"links": [
[
"expose",
"expose"
],
[
"reveal",
"reveal"
],
[
"true",
"true"
],
[
"character",
"character"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To expose, or reveal the true character of someone."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:",
"text": "But instead of a direct answer to so important a question, Jones began to be very importunate with the lady to unmask; and at length having prevailed, there appeared not Mrs Fitzpatrick, but the Lady Bellaston herself.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To remove one's mask."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To remove one's mask."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2019, Sarah Cobbe, Simple Autism Strategies for Home and School: Practical Tips, Resources and Poetry, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 49:",
"text": "[…] to unmask and to assume her 'natural' role (rather than her 'fitting in' role).",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Barry Carpenter, Francesca Happé, Jo Egerton, Girls and Autism: Educational, Family and Personal Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 172:",
"text": "Autistic females are trying to adhere to social expectations placed upon them, and masking and blending to fit those expectations, […] How do you unmask when you have spent a [long time masking].",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cease engaging in masking, to cease disguising one's autism."
],
"links": [
[
"mask",
"mask"
],
[
"autism",
"autism"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To cease engaging in masking, to cease disguising one's autism."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Military"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1893, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Hannibal: a History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans […] , page 156:",
"text": "He recalled his horse. This, retiring, unmasked the heavy infantry, which Hannibal called in from either flank and sent with a vigorous élan in close column across the ford against the ill-arrayed barbarians, followed by the cavalry, which had formed again in its rear.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Stephen R. Wise, “To Capture an Island: Amphibious Operations in the Department of the South, 1861–1863”, in Theodore P. Savas, editor, Charleston: Battles and Seacoast Operations, page 10:",
"text": "In less than an hour the batteries were unmasked. The Confederate works were visible and at 5:08 a.m., Seymour ordered the batteries to commence firing.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To expose something that was concealed or shielded from an enemy."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"conceal",
"conceal"
],
[
"shield",
"shield"
],
[
"enemy",
"enemy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, military, dated) To expose something that was concealed or shielded from an enemy."
],
"tags": [
"dated",
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Computing"
],
"glosses": [
"To enable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting or setting the associated bit."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"enable",
"enable"
],
[
"interrupt",
"interrupt"
],
[
"bit",
"bit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, computing) To enable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting or setting the associated bit."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʌnˈmæsk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ʌnˈmɑːsk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ʌnˈmæsk/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-æsk"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "unmasque"
},
{
"word": "un-mask"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "svaljam maskata",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "свалям маската"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "desemmascarar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odmaskovat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "sundat masku"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "ontmaskeren"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "senmaskigi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "paljastaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "démasquer"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "desenmascarar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "smascherare"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zrzucić maskę"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "raskrinkati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "desenmascarar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "avmaskera"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "Birisinin maskesini düşürmek"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to remove a mask from someone",
"word": "tynnu masg"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "dimakazercel",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "դիմակազերծել"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razobličavam",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "разобличавам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "desemmascarar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odhalit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "demaskovat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "prozradit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ukázat pravou tvář"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "sundat masku"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "strhnout masku"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "ontmaskeren"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "senmaskigi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "paljastaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "révéler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "dévoiler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "démasquer"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "smascherare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "palesare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "scoprire"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zrzucić maskę"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "desmascarar"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "raskrinkati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "descubrir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "revelar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "demostrar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "avmaskera"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to expose the true character of someone",
"word": "datguddio"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"word": "desemmascarar-se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odmaskovat se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "sundat masku"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"word": "senmaskiĝi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"word": "paljastaa (kasvonsa)"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"word": "se démasquer"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"word": "smascherarsi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zrzucić maskę"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"word": "desenmascararse"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"word": "ta av sin mask"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"word": "Birisinin maskesini düşürmek"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to remove one's mask",
"word": "tynnu masg"
}
],
"word": "unmask"
}
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