Divulge
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: daɪˈvʌɫdʒ, daɪˈvʊɫdʒ
- US IPA: /daɪˈvʌlʒ/, /dɪˈvʌlʒ/
Origin
Latin divulgare, from di- ("widely") + vulgare ("publish").
Full definition of divulge
Verb
- 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. - William Cowper.
- To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
- God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven. -- John Milton.