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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. rare To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
  3. v. To impart; to communicate.
  4. v. rare 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. Latin divulgare, from di- ("widely") + vulgare ("publish"). (Wiktionary)
  2. 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). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (15)

Words with the same meaning

  1. reveal
  2. communicate
  3. disclose
  1. uncover
  2. discover
  3. tell
  1. publish
  2. impart
  3. proclaim
  1. tattle
  2. let out
  3. give away
  1. expose
  2. let on
  3. bring out

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. tell

hyponyms (22)

Words that are more specific

  1. confide
  2. tattle
  3. reveal
  4. muckrake
  1. babble
  2. blab
  3. peach
  4. bewray
  1. spring
  2. blackwash
  3. betray
  4. come out
  1. spill the beans
  2. leak
  3. let the cat out of the bag
  4. sing
  1. blab out
  2. blow
  3. babble out
  4. come out of the closet
  1. talk
  2. out

rhymes (2)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. bulge
  1. indulge

reverse dictionary (41)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. spill the beans
  2. talk
  3. let the cat out of the bag
  4. peach
  5. sing
  6. tattle
  7. babble
  8. babble out
  1. blab
  2. blab out
  3. bewray
  4. reveal
  5. divulgate
  6. to let out
  7. to let on
  8. unsecret
  1. blurt
  2. privileged communication
  3. confidential communication
  4. break
  5. particular
  6. physician-patient privilege
  7. priest-penitent privilege
  8. betray
  1. spill
  2. marital communications privilege
  3. privilege
  4. attorney-client privilege
  5. blackmail
  6. husband-wife privilege
  7. journalist's privilege
  8. publish
  1. secret
  2. silentiary
  3. split
  4. spread
  5. tell
  6. voice
  7. conceal
  8. disclose
  1. impart

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