صَفْحَةٌ

[Hence,] أَبْدَى لَهُ صَفْحَتَهُ (tropical:) i. q. كَاشَفَهُ [which is used alone as meaning كَاشَفَهُ بِالعَدَاوَةِ He showed open enmity, or hostility, with him]: (A, TA:) or he showed, or revealed, to him his deed [or crime] which he was concealing. (TA in article بدو, from a tradition [which shows it to be used in an evil sense].)