expose

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Revealing secrets & becoming known
anti-secrecy
backchannel
bare
bare your heart/soulidiom
blow someone's coveridiom
blow/take the lid off somethingidiom
declassify
hold
huddle
kiss
put the word outidiom
rat
rat on someone/something
reintroduce
revealingly
state's evidence
surface
tip
transpire
unravel

divulge | American Dictionary

divulge
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈvʌldʒ, dɑɪ-/
to make something secret known:
Someone divulged their plans to their competitors.
He did not divulge details of his plan.

Examples of divulge

divulge
Its acquisition is subordinated to the willingness of village sages to divulge their knowledge and governed by the etiquette of polite inquiry.
Unfortunately, the archives have not divulged all their secrets.
But how can the patient make such a decision if the doctor is constrained by contract from divulging important information to the patient?
I, the doctor, know better than the patient when to divulge information.
The work divulged the strengths of and possibilities for individual and collective self-rule.
How much information must clinicianresearchers divulge to their patient-subjects when enrolling them in clinical trials?
It is possible that not all relationships were divulged to the interviewers.
One hopes that new theories of ' transnationalism ' and new empirical research will divulge the complexity of contemporary migration without losing sight of its day-to-day meanings.
Others were extremely reluctant to divulge personal details.
Most ref used to divulge any information and, indeed, did not even know where the children had been taken.
The notions introduced in this paper are by no means conclusive, but rather divulge our limited understanding of this subject.
For reasons of confidentiality, descriptions of these analysis tools were not divulged by the company.
A critique of the approach including advantages and disadvantages is thus provided without divulging commercially sensitive details of proprietary models.
No study has yet ferreted out data practices that industry declines to divulge.
Here a doctor lies to his patient with the understanding that divulging the true nature of her tragedy will harm her health and impair her chance of recovery.
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