uncover

To remove the cover from.

To manifest or disclose; reveal.

To remove the hat from, as in respect or reverence.

To remove a cover.

To bare the head in respect or reverence.

To remove a cover or covering from; divest of a cover or covering, such as a hat, a veil, clothing, a roof, or the like.

Hence To lay bare; disclose; lay open to view.

Milit., in the deployment of troops, to expose (the successive lines of formation) by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.

To remove the cover or covering of something, as the head; specifically, to take off one’s hat or other head-covering.

To take the cover from; to divest of covering.