uncovering's Usage Examples:

Blucher, however, hearing of his arrival, at once retreated and the emperor followed, thus uncovering the passes over the Bohemian mountains, a fact of which Schwarzenberg was quick to take advantage.

However, uncovering a pool for the season is not the only time a pool can turn green.

By sinking additional pits or by extending the costeaning trenches and uncovering the outcrop of the deposit more fully it is sometimes possible to obtain all the information required for the most extensive and important mining operations.

Joyce and others; finally, in May 1890, the complete uncovering of the whole site was begun by Mr G.

A further gain obtained through these operations has been the uncovering, immediately above the main subject, of a beautiful scheme of painted lunettes and vaultings, the lunettes filled by Leonardo's.

southern), although that entailed the uncovering of the communication of the II.

She rifled gingerly through the boxes, afraid of uncovering a stash of tarantula cats.

The work was carried on with splendid perseverance, and the uncovering of the interior was completed in 1908.

Hastings justified his action on the ground that the Rohillas were a danger to the British as uncovering the flank of Oudh; and while he would never involve the company in an unjust war, neither did he desire an unprofitable one.

The complete uncovering of the site was planned in 1910.

Synonyms:

remotion, baring, stripping, denudation, deforestation, removal, disforestation, husking, cornhusking,

Antonyms:

lose, fail, underact, overact, inactivity,