divulge
/daɪˈvʌld͡ʒ/ verb C2- To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known. · I will never divulge that secret to anyone.
- To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
He/she/it divulges · Past divulged · Past participle divulged · -ing form divulging
Verb forms
- Base form
- divulge
- He/she/it
- divulges
- Past
- divulged
- Past participle
- divulged
- -ing form
- divulging
From the library
I should have feared to injure both Edmond and yourself, had I divulged my own apprehensions to a soul.
All Villefort’s influence barely enabled him to stifle the secret Dantès had so nearly divulged.
Without divulging his secret, Dantès could not give sufficiently clear instructions to an agent.
“Well,” said Monte Cristo in an indifferent tone, “you will do as you please, count, for you are the master of your own actions, and are the person most concerned in the matter, but if I were you, I would not divulge a word of these adventures.
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