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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make known (something private or secret).
  2. v. Archaic To proclaim publicly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make public; send or scatter abroad; publish.
  2. Specifically To tell or make known, as something before private or secret; reveal; disclose; declare openly.
  3. To declare by a public act; proclaim.
  4. To impart, as a gift or faculty; confer generally.
  5. Synonyms To let out, disclose, betray, impart, communicate.
  6. To become public; be made known; become visible.

Wiktionary

  1. v. 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.
  2. v. To indicate publicly; to proclaim.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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.
  2. v. To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
  3. v. To impart; to communicate.
  4. v. To become publicly known.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Etymologies

  1. Middle English divulgen, from Old French divulguer, from Latin dīvulgāre, to publish : dī-, dis-, among; see dis- + vulgāre, to spread among the multitude (from vulgus, common people).

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