(transitive) To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
Used in a Sentence
unmask
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for unmask.
Editorial note
For me there is no other means for checking the murder than to unsparingly unmask my opponents.
Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(transitive) To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of unmask gathered in one view.
(transitive) To remove a mask from someone.
(intransitive) To remove one's mask.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for unmask.
verb
(transitive) To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
verb
(transitive) To remove a mask from someone.
verb
(intransitive) To remove one's mask.
verb
(intransitive) To cease engaging in masking, to cease disguising one's autism.
Example sentences
For me there is no other means for checking the murder than to unsparingly unmask my opponents.
What is really being discussed there is if the government could compel Yahoo to unmask an anonymous user.
So in people with elevated catecholamine levels sugar intake tends to unmask damage and initiate a healing process.
It will unmask any hidden grim consequences if any that are hidden on the face of an intervention.
They have to rely on endpoint compromise or improper configuration of hidden services to unmask Tor users.
You have to explicitly unmask the invalid floating-point exception in order for this to trap.
A trial was projected to unmask the partisans of big tonnage as saboteurs and traitors.
It's basically exploiting parallax to mask/unmask segments depending on the angle of the light source.
If the author is not willing to unmask him or herself, I'm not convinced courts would allow an author to maintain anonymity while suing you for copyright violation.
It's a bit pricey, and annoying that we have to use such tricks to unmask private callers.
I don't believe that process sandboxing would have prevented what the FBI wanted to do here: unmask the identities of Tor users.
If the Chinese government wants to help unmask people?
Quote examples
Because of that "useless" peppering, there is no way the attackers will be able to unmask the hashes.
By bootstrapping a associations of identity-masking technologies with possible identities you allow "normal" law enforcement investigative techniques to unmask the identity.
Interesting to me though is that that article seems to imply that if you are after an Onion server you only need one "idiot" using it in order to unmask it.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use unmask in a sentence?
For me there is no other means for checking the murder than to unsparingly unmask my opponents.
What does unmask mean?
(transitive) To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
What part of speech is unmask?
unmask is commonly used as verb.