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Synonyms for unmask

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Synonyms for unmask

reveal the true nature of

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take the mask off

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Mr Higgins, who used to live near the post office, was arrested on suspicion of being the unmasked robber on June 26.
The prankster who creamed racing pundit John McCririck live on TV was unmasked yesterday.
She was unmasked by Cambridge academic and author Christopher Andrew, who says her existence - under the Soviet codename Hola - was given to the British security services by KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin in 1992.
"Halloween Unmasked" is essential listening not only for horror fans, but for all movie fans.
When you practice doing so, you can use this way of meeting yourself unmasked as an anchor for those times when you wish you were somehow other than you are.
Unmasked will also feature an exclusive interview with Bill Dworin, who investigated claims in 1993 that Jackson had molested a young boy.
"As we have seen in Eastern Europe," she writes, "the 'rediscovery' of the past and the search for culprits can open up a Pandora's box, revealing much more than the human heart can absorb, as husbands, wives and friends are 'unmasked' as former government agents or informers." By that logic, a husband who embezzles from a charity should never be "unmasked" because it'd be too painful for his wife.
--Rolling Stone contributing editor Toure, on Michael Jackson at the height of his career in the early 1980s, on Dateline NBC's February 17 special, "Michael Jackson Unmasked"
They stood up to the hollow heroism of Abstract Expressionism and the dogmatic critical discourse of the day and unmasked the illusions of representation.
For two decades Tom--or Joey, as his buddies from the old neighborhood like to call him--manages to hide out among the quiet townsfolk of a sleepy Indiana burg, only to be unmasked when he commits a violent act of heroism that evokes cheers from his neighbors and catches the attention of old friends interested in settling accounts.
In Thief of Lives, Welstiel is unmasked and Magiere learns his true intentions--to force her to find an artifact that will allow Welstiel to become human again.
Mr Donaldson, Sinn Fein's former head of administration at Stormont who was unmasked by Gerry Adams as a British spy last December, had been living in the cottage with no electricity or mains water supply after being ostracised by former republican comrades.
It was not the federal court that unmasked the "genesis of intelligent design," it was the hardworking and skilled lawyers who did the unmasking through investigation of the documentary record and the depositions of witnesses.