unmask
verb (used with object)
to strip a mask or disguise from.
unmasks
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present tense formof unmask (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Meghan Kobza’s “The Masquerade” unmasks the festivities of 18th-century London, where the commercial “middling sort” acquired the numbers and money to emulate the private entertainments of kings and aristocrats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The vaccine acts like a ‘wanted poster’ which unmasks cancer cells which are adept at hiding in the body, only to resurface later.
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
Johnson not only unmasks himself in the “Fast X” tag, he matches Momoa’s unhinged energy with a crowd-pleasing ferocity that brings the mood up from an otherwise glum cliffhanger in the film’s final moments.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
The song even unmasks the grim realities of undergoing the procedure.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022
Underneath all, however, a shrewd knowledge of human nature is betrayed, which unmasks motives and reveals the true inwardness of men and events with a humorous fidelity.
From Comic History of England by Bill Nye
