divulge
pronunciation
How to pronounce divulge in British English:
UK [daɪˈvʌldʒ]
How to pronounce divulge in American English:
US [daɪˈvʌldʒ]
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- Verb:
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Word Origin
- divulge
- divulge: [15] Etymologically, to divulge something is to make it known to the vulgar masses. The word comes from Latin dīvulgāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘widely’ and vulgāre ‘make common, publish’. This in turn was derived from vulgus ‘common people’, source of English vulgar. At first in English it was semantically neutral, meaning ‘make widely known’ (‘fame of his ouvrages [works, achievements] hath been divulged’, William Caxton, Book of Eneydos 1490), but by the 17th century the word’s modern connotations of ‘disclosing what should be secret’ had developed.=> vulgar
- divulge (v.)
- mid-15c., from Latin divulgare "publish, make common," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + vulgare "make common property," from vulgus "common people" (see vulgar). Related: Divulged; divulging.
Example
- 1. No , she may not divulge his e-mail address .
- 2. What it all cost is a secret that shanghai authorities refuse to divulge .
- 3. As up charges go , that was cheap : us search wanted $ 10 to divulge the full address .
- 4. Departments not only refuse to divulge information to the public , but also to each other .
- 5. He declined to divulge details , saying only that a deal had been struck .