divulge

  • 21divulge — /davalj/ To disclose or make known, as to divulge secret or classified information …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 22divulge — To reveal. Under a statute forbidding the interception or divulging of a telephone communication without the authority of the sender, to shunt a conversation so that a third person may and does hear it is to divulge a communication even though… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 23divulge — [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… …

    Word origins

  • 24divulge, disclose — These terms mean to make known to others what was intended to be kept secret, private, or confidential. Divulge is more likely to be used when something previously secret is revealed to a small number of people or a particular group; disclose… …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 25divulge — transitive verb (divulged; divulging) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin divulgare, from dis + vulgare to make known, from vulgus mob Date: 15th century 1. archaic to make public ; proclaim 2. to make known (as a …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 26divulge — divulgement, n. divulger, n. /di vulj , duy /, v.t., divulged, divulging. to disclose or reveal (something private, secret, or previously unknown). [1425 75; late ME ( < AF) < L divulgare, equiv. to di DI 2 + vulgare to make general or common, to …

    Universalium

  • 27divulge — Synonyms and related words: 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,&#8230; …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 28divulge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. disclose, reveal, let slip, tell. See disclosure.Ant., conceal. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. disclose, impart, confess; see admit 2 , reveal 1 . See Synonym Study at reveal . III (Roget s 3&#8230; …

    English dictionary for students

  • 29divulge — di·vulge || daɪ vÊŒldÊ’ n. act of divulging, act of revealing, disclosure, exposure (Archaic) v. reveal, tell, disclose …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 30divulge — [dʌɪ vʌldʒ, dɪ ] verb make known (secret information). Derivatives divulgation noun divulgence noun Origin ME: from L. divulgare, from di widely + vulgare publish (from vulgus common people ) …

    English new terms dictionary