divulge

  • 11divulge — [[t]daɪvʌ̱lʤ, AM dɪ [/t]] divulges, divulging, divulged VERB If you divulge a piece of secret or private information, you tell it to someone. [FORMAL] [V n] Officials refuse to divulge details of the negotiations... [V n] He was charged with… …

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  • 12divulge — UK [daɪˈvʌldʒ] / US [dɪˈvʌldʒ] verb [transitive] Word forms divulge : present tense I/you/we/they divulge he/she/it divulges present participle divulging past tense divulged past participle divulged formal to give information about something,… …

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  • 13divulge — v. (B) to divulge information to the press * * * [d(a)ɪ vʌldʒ] (B) to divulge information to the press …

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  • 14divulge — verb a) To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret. b) To… …

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  • 15divulge — See divulge, disclose …

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  • 16divulge — verb Divulge is used with these nouns as the object: ↑detail, ↑information, ↑secret …

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  • 17divulge — di|vulge [ dı vʌldʒ ] verb transitive FORMAL to give information about something, especially something that should be kept secret: I m not allowed to divulge information about my clients …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 18divulge — [15] Etymologically, to divulge something is to make it known to the vulgar masses. The word comes from Latin dīvulgāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis ‘widely’ and vulgāre ‘make common, publish’. This in turn was derived from vulgus… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 19divulge — verb he refused to divulge Father O Neill s whereabouts Syn: disclose, reveal, tell, communicate, pass on, publish, broadcast, proclaim; expose, uncover, make public, give away, let slip; informal spill the beans about, let on about, let the cat… …

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  • 20divulge — /davalj/ To disclose or make known, as to divulge secret or classified information …

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