Divulge

Definition: Divulge

Divulge

Verb

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".

Date "divulge" was first used: sometime around 1450. (references)

Synonyms: Divulge

Synonyms: break (v), bring out (v), declare (v), disclose (v), discover (v), expose (v), give away (v), impart (v), let on (v), let out (v), reveal (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disclosure	Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Chicago's Sweet Tooth: Five Hundred Prominent Chicagoans Divulge Their Favorite Dessert Recipes (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Poland	Journalists who refused to divulge sources prior to the new code's enactment also can avoid sanctions by invoking "journalistic privilege." There is no restriction on the establishment of private newspapers or distribution of journals, and there are numerous private newspapers and magazines representing a wide variety of viewpoints. (references)
Economic History	Bahrain	There are no technology transfer requirements that force firms to share or divulge technology through compulsory licensing to a domestic partner, nor are firms forced to commit to undertake research and development activities in Bahrain. (references)
Human Rights	Turkey	Piskinsut, who interviewed over 8,000 prisoners, refused to divulge the names of the alleged torture victims. (references)
Women	Sierra Leone	Frequently women are beaten until they divulge the names of their partners. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Divulge" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 92.93% of the time. "Divulge" is used about 99 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	92.93%	92	34,282
Lexical Verb (base form)	7.07%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	99	N/A

Expression using "divulge": divulge a secret. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "divulge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), zbulim (detection, disclosure, discovery, exploration, exposure, eye opener, finding, guess, intelligence, invention, outcrop, prospection, reconnaissance, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, strike, uncovering), shpallje (annunciation, asseveration, cry, delation, enunciation, notification, proclamation, promulgation, pronouncement, pronouncing, report, ticket), shpall (adjudicate, announce, assert, asseverate, blaze, celebrate, declare, delate, enounce, enunciate, hold, notify, post, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, read, state, usher in), publikoj (publicize, publish, release), publikim (publication), përhapje (diffusion, dilatation, dilation, dissemination, distribution, expansion, extension, leakage, occurrence, permeation, pervasion, prevalence, promulgation, propagation, semination, spread, spreading, transmission, waft), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), bëj i njohur (blaze, distinguish). (various references)

Arabic		‏كشف (bare, bring to light, detect, disclose, disclosure, discover, expose, exposure, find out, lay bare, lay open, lift, make known, open, remove, reveal, revelation, show up, take off, uncover, unearth, unfold, unveil), ‏أفشى سرا (betray, blab, disclose, expose, let on, repeat), ‏باح بسر. (various references)

Bulgarian		разкривам (bewray, bring to light, detect, disclose, discover, disinter, elicit, expose, find out, manifest, penetrate, show, smell out, spill, unbare, unclose, unclothe, uncover, uncurtain, undress, unkennel, unload, unlock, unravel, unveil), разгласявам (delate, notify, peal, peddle, proclaim, publicize, publish, reveal, sound), изказвам (enounce, evince, extend), издавам (betray, bring out, condemn, delate, denounce, disclose, emit, enact, give, give away, hand down, issue, leak, loose, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, put out, send forth, spill, stick out, throw out, utter). (various references)

Chinese		泄露 (leak), 泄漏 (Divulged, Divulging), 泄 (leak out), 洩 (leak out). (various references)

Czech		vyzradit (betray), publikovat (issue, publish), prozradit (betray, disclose, give away, leak, reveal). (various references)

Farsi		فاش کردن (Babble, Betray, Disclose, Giveaway, Manifest, Peach, Reveal, Squeal, Tattle, Tell, Uncloak, Unfold, Utter), افشاء کردن (Expose, Impart), بروزدادن (Blurt). (various references)

Finnish		ilmaista salaisuus (divulge a secret, let a person into a secret). (various references)

French		divulguer (disclose), révéler (disclose). (various references)

German		ausplaudern (babble out, blab, let out, to blab, to divulge). (various references)

Greek		κοινολογώ, λέγω (come out with, tell, utter), αποκαλύπτω (bespeak, betray, blow, disclose, reveal, uncloak, uncover, unfold, unveil). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�'לות סו�" (betray, confide, give away, let on, let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans, telltale). (various references)

Hungarian		közzétesz (advertise, advertize, insert, publish, to bring out, to descry, to disclose, to divulge, to make common, to post, to put out, to set forth), elhíresztel (to divulge, to noise, to put about, to trumpet). (various references)

Indonesian		mengumumkan (announce, declare), membukakan (open, open for), membuka rahasia. (various references)

Italian		divulgare (broadcast, make known, noise, spread, telecast, tell), anticipare (advance, antedate, anticipate, be ahead of time, come early, disclose, forestall, pre empt, put forward, think, think ahead). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		秘密�'漏らす (to divulge a secret), 暴く (to disclose, to divulge, to expose), 明かす (spend, to divulge, to pass, to reveal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あばく (to disclose, to divulge, to expose), あかす (spend, to bore, to divulge, to glut, to pass, to reveal, to satiate, to tire, to weary). (various references)

Korean		누설하십시�". (various references)

Manx		kiaullanaghey (divulgation, publishing), insh (announce, communicate, communication; island, coverage, crack, crack as joke, declare, divulgation, narrate, narration, report, speech, utterance), bloberaght (babble, blab, divulgation). (various references)

Pig Latin		ivulgeday

Portuguese		divulgar (bruit, disclose, let on, noise, propagate, publicize, publish, reveal, rumor, rumour, spread, unclose, unveil). (various references)

Romanian		divulga (babble, disclose, let on, spill the beans), dezvãlui (appear, bare, debunk, disclose, evolve, lay bare, reveal, show, show up, uncover, unfold, unveil), destãinui (bring to light, confide, disclose, disembosom, expose, let in on, open, reveal, unbosom, unfold). (various references)

Russian		разглашать (bewray). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		otkriti (bare, descry, detect, disclose, discover, dog down, expose, expose smb., let out, reveal, turn up, uncloak, uncover, unearth, unfold). (various references)

Spanish		divulgar (acquaint, announce, bruit, disclose, give out, inform, let know, peddle, publicize, publish, reveal). (various references)

Swedish		yppa (expose, open, reveal, tell, unclose), röja (betray, clear, display, expose, grub, reveal, thin), avslöja (betray, come clean, debunk, disclose, discover, expose, lay bare, let on, let out, nail, open, relieve, reveal, spill out, tattle, unclose, uncover, unfold, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Turkish		yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, emit, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), ortaya dökmek (air, publish), ifşa etmek (disclose, reveal), açığa vurmak (betray, disclose, evince, express, externalize, give vent to, lay bare, let on, reveal, spill, uncloak, unclose, uncork, unseal, unveil, utter, vent, ventilate, yield, yield up). (various references)

Ukrainian		ставати відомим (get about, get around), розголошувати (blaze abroad, noise, notify, publicize, tell). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	divulgare, producto produxi productum, pronuntiabit, pronuntiabo, pronuntiabunt, pronuntians, pronuntiansque, pronuntiavi, pronuntiet, pronuntio, vulgatum, vulgo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "divulge": divulged, divulgence, divulgences, divulger, divulgers, divulges. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Divulge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: devulge, dibulge, dilvulge, divage, divalge, divluge, divoulge, divuge, divuldge. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "divulge" (pronounced divu"lj or dīvu"lj)
3	-u" l j	bulge, indulge.
3	-u" l j	bulge, indulge.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-l-u-v"
	-1 letter: guiled.
	-2 letters: devil, gelid, glide, glued, guide, guild, guile, lived, luged.
	-3 letters: deil, deli, diel, dive, duel, evil, geld, gied, gild, give, gled, glue, gude, guid, idle, iglu, leud, lied, lieu, live, lude, luge, veil, veld, vide, vied, vile.
	-4 letters: del, dev, die, dig, due, dug, dui, eld, ged, gel, gid, gie, gul, guv.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-l-u-v"
	+1 letter: divulged, divulger, divulges.
	+2 letters: devaluing, divulgers.
	+3 letters: divulgence, vulgarised, vulgarized.
	+4 letters: devaluating, divulgences, overindulge.
	+5 letters: overbuilding, overclouding, overindulged, overindulges, undervaluing, unprivileged.
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