uncloset

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ closet.

Verb

uncloset (third-person singular simple present unclosets, present participle uncloseting, simple past and past participle uncloseted)

1. (transitive) To bring out of the closet; to out.
   • 1977 December 24, Robert Etherington, “Gays In The Academy—Uneven Scholars”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 25, page 13:

     What is novel is the willingness of all 26 contributors to, in effect, uncloset themselves and appear in a (more or less) scholarly volume specifically for the gay community.