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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | announcement, revelation |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, advertisement, betrayal, blow-by-blow, broadcast, confession, declaration, discovery, divulgation, divulgence, enlightenment, exposal, exposure, exposé, handout, impartance, impartation, leak, make, picture, publication, revealing, revealment, rundown, snitch, squeal, tip*, tip-off, uncovering, unveilment, ventilation |
| Antonyms: | secret |
| Concept: | Disclosure. |
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-nouns
disclosure; retection; unveiling; deterration, revealment, revelation; exposition, exposure; expose; whole truth; telltale (news)., acknowledgment, avowal; confession, confessional; shrift., bursting of a bubble; denouement.
-verbs
disclose, discover, dismask; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose; open, open up; bare, bring to light., divulge, reveal, break; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, 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); split., acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's evidence, turn Queen's evidence; acknowledge the corn [U.S.]., raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive, unbeguile; disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of; d'sillusionner., be disclosed; transpire, come to light; come in sight (be visible); become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.
-adjectives
disclosed
-phrases
the murder is out; a light breaks in upon one; the scales fall from one's eyes; the eyes are opened.
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| Antonyms: | concealment |
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| Concept: | Publication. |
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-nouns
publication; public announcement; promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento [Italian]; circulation, indiction, edition; hue and cry., publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit; vox populi; report (news)., the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily; telegraphy; publisher; imprint; town crier., circular, circular letter; manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster; notice.
-verbs
publish; make public, make known (information) [more]; speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evlugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice., proclaim, herald, blazon; blaze abroad, noise abroad; sound a trumpet; trumpet forth, thunder forth; give tongue; announce with beat of drum, announce with flourish of trumpets; proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at Charing Cross., advertise, placard; post, post up afficher, publish in the Gazette, send round the crier., raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report; set news afloat., be published; be public, become public; come out; go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about; get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind; find vent; see the light; go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current; go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land; virum volitare per ora; pass from mouth to mouth; spread; run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.
-adjectives
published; current (news); in circulation, public; notorious; flagrant, arrant; open; trumpet-tongued; encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory; exoteric.
-adverbs
publicly; in open court, with open doors.
-phrases
notice is hereby given; this is to give, these are to give notice; nomina stultorum parietibus haerent; semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
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| Antonyms: | secret |
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