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divulge
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb divulge has 1 sense
- divulge(v = verb.communication) break, bring out, disclose, discover, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, unwrap - make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" is one way to tell
Derived forms noun divulgement1, noun divulgence1
Sample sentence:
They divulge that there was a traffic accident
OXFORD DICTIONARY
divulge, v.tr. disclose; reveal (a secret etc.).
Derivative
divulgation n. divulgement n. divulgence n.
Etymology
L divulgare (as DI-(2), vulgare publish f. vulgus common people)
THESAURUS
divulge
affect, air, betoken, betray, brandish, break it to, break the news, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, broach, come out with, confide, confide to, dangle, demonstrate, develop, disclose, discover, display, divulgate, dramatize, embody, enact, evidence, evince, evulgate, exhibit, expose to view, express, flaunt, flourish, give away, give out, give sign, give token, give vent to, gossip, highlight, illuminate, incarnate, indicate, let get around, let in on, let out, make clear, make known, make plain, make public, manifest, materialize, mean, mouth, open up, out with, parade, perform, present, proclaim, produce, publish, put out, represent, reveal, roll out, set forth, show, show forth, spill, spotlight, tattle, tell, token, trot out, unfold, utter, vent, ventilate, waveROGET THESAURUS
divulge
Disclosure
VB disclose, discover, dismask, draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain, unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel, take off the seal, break the seal, lay open, lay bare, expose, open, open up, bare, bring to light, divulge, reveal, break, squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch, let into the secret, reveal the secrets of the prison house, tell, breathe, utter, blab, peach, let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, betray, tell tales, come out of school, come out with, give vent, give utterance to, open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about, speak out, make public, unriddle, split, acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast, show one's hand, show one's cards, unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart, open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind, unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment, say the truth, speak the truth, turn King's evidence, Queen's evidence, acknowledge the corn, raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw off the mask, expose, lay open, undeceive, unbeguile, disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of, d_esillusionner, be disclosed, transpire, come to light, come in sight, become known, escape the lips, come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out, show its face, show its colors, discover itself, break through the clouds, flash on the mind.
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