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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIVULGE, v.t. divulj. [L., to make public; the common people; people.]
1. To make public; to tell or make known something before private or secret; to reveal; to disclose; as, to divulge the secret sentiments of a friend; to divulge the proceedings of the cabinet. Divulge is more generally applied to verbal disclosures, and publish to printed accounts. But they may be used synonymously. We may publish by words, and divulge by the press.
2. To declare by a public act; to proclaim. [Unusual.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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1: 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" [syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out]

Merriam Webster's

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 confidence or secret) Synonyms: see reveal • divulgence noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. disclose; reveal (a secret etc.). Derivatives: divulgation n. divulgement n. divulgence n. Etymology: L divulgare (as DI-(2), vulgare publish f. vulgus common people)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Divulge Di*vulge", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divulged; p. pr. & vb. n. Divulging.] [F. divulguer, L. divulgare; di- = dis- + vulgare to spread among the people, from vulgus the common people. See Vulgar.] 1. 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. Divulge not such a love as mine. --Cowper. 2. To indicate publicly; to proclaim. [R.] God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven. --Milton. 3. To impart; to communicate. Which would not be To them [animals] made common and divulged. --Milton. Syn: To publish; disclose; discover; uncover; reveal; communicate; impart; tell.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Divulge Di*vulge", v. i. To become publicly known. [R.] ``To keep it from divulging.'' --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(divulges, divulging, divulged) If you divulge a piece of secret or private information, you tell it to someone. (FORMAL) Officials refuse to divulge details of the negotiations... I do not want to divulge where the village is. = reveal, disclose VERB: V n, V wh, also V n to n, V that

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Disclose, communicate, discover, impart, tell, make known, make public, spread abroad.

Moby Thesaurus

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, wave