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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
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

intransitive verb Date: 1725 1. to make acknowledgment ; admit <knows more than he lets on> 2. to reveal a secret <nobody let on about the surprise party> 3. pretend <let on to being a stranger>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you do not let on that something is true, you do not tell anyone that it is true, and you keep it a secret. (INFORMAL) She never let on that anything was wrong... I didn't let on to the staff what my conversation was... He knows the culprit but is not letting on. PHRASAL VERB: usu with brd-neg, V P that/wh, V P to n that/wh, V P

Moby Thesaurus

acknowledge, act, act a part, admit, admit everything, affect, allow, assume, avow, betray, bluff, come clean, concede, confess, cop a plea, counterfeit, cover up, disclose, dissemble, dissimulate, divulge, fake, feign, four-flush, gammon, give away, grant, let on like, let out, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, open up, out with it, own, own up, play, play a part, play possum, playact, plead guilty, pretend, profess, put on, sham, simulate, spill, spill it, spit it out, tell, tell all, tell the truth, uncover