What is another word for unmasks?

Pronunciation: [ʌnmˈasks] (IPA)

Unmasks is a verb that means to reveal or expose the true nature or identity of something or someone. There are several synonyms that can be used in place of unmasks, including exposes, uncovers, unveils, discloses, discovers, and reveals. Each of these words conveys the act of revealing something that was previously hidden or unknown. Additionally, other synonyms for unmasks include unearths, uncloaks, bares, lays bare, and brings to light. These synonyms can be used interchangeably with unmasks, depending on the context and tone of the sentence in which they are used.

Usage examples for Unmasks

He still acts as a divine messenger to a heathen king, and he successfully unmasks his fallacy of judging by appearances in the matter of Bel's food.
"The Three Additions to Daniel, A Study"
William Heaford Daubney
He unmasks, and proves to be no other than Prince Paul, who desires to become a Nihilist and revenge himself for his dismissal.
"Oscar Wilde"
Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
Underneath all, however, a shrewd knowledge of human nature is betrayed, which unmasks motives and reveals the true inwardness of men and events with a humorous fidelity.
"Comic History of England"
Bill Nye

Famous quotes with Unmasks

  • Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
    Suzanne Necker
  • A minimum of unconsciousness is necessary if one wants to stay inside history. To act is one thing; to know one is acting is another. When lucidity invests the action, insinuates itself into it, action is undone, and with it, prejudice, whose function consists, precisely, in subordinating, in enslaving consciousness to action. The man who unmasks his fictions renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depths. No man concerned with his equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis.
    Emil Cioran
  • As Cioran correctly points out, a principal danger of being overcivilized is that one all to easily relapses, out of sheer exhaustion and the unsatisfied need to be “stimulated,” into a vulgar and passive barbarism. Thus, “the man who unmasks his fictions” through an indiscriminate pursuit of the lucidity that is promoted by modern liberal culture “renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depth.” There, he concludes, “no man concerned with his own equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis.”
    Emil Cioran

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