verb
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To remove a mask from someone.
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To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
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To remove one's mask.
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To enable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting or setting the associated bit.
Examples of unmask in a Sentence
The princess would slay him, but is withheld by her mother, who sees they have need of Tristan's aid to unmask the seneschal.
But Austria, which had made a great show of seconding their efforts, now began to unmask her real aims, which were to take advantage of Turkey's embarrassments to push her own claims in the principalities and the Balkan Peninsula.
Determined to unmask the ideology of others, they have become ideologues themselves.
Starting treatment with methylphenidate or amphetamines may unmask the condition, and the tics will become apparent.
Here he is visibly wishing to unmask sinister motives.
Not only must we prevent the next murder, but we must also unmask whoever this confederate is.
He also vowed, if he should bear rule himself, to make no violent use of his power, nor outshine those set under him by superior display, to make it his aim to cherish the truth and unmask liars, to be pure from theft and unjust gain, to conceal nothing from his fellow-members, nor to divulge any of their affairs to other men, even at the risk of death, to transmit their doctrines unchanged, and to keep secret the books of the society and the names of the angels.
In analytic we work with an ethos different from that of dialectic. We presume truth and not probability or concession, but a true conclusion can follow from false premises, and it is only in the attempt to derive the premises in turn from their grounds that we unmask the deception.
A scientist 's assistant attempts to unmask a sinister villain named The Recorder who can control an electronic flying disk.
Happily neither of the titles reviewed here sets out to unmask the true killer.
Any thread created using the Threads Module will unmask this signal prior to entering user code.
It is not appropriate here to unmask the culprit in the style of a whodunit.
Oh, how I would guard him, how I would tell him the truth, how I would unmask his deceivers!