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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make known; confess |
| Synonyms: | admit, betray, blab, blow the whistle, broadcast, communicate, cough up, declare, disclose, discover, exhibit, expose, fess up, give away, go public, gossip, impart, leak, let hair down, let slip, mouth, open up, own up, proclaim, promulgate, publish, reveal, spill, spill the beans, spring, tattle, tell, tip off, uncover |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, keep, secrete |
| Main Entry: | relate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give an account of |
| Synonyms: | break a story, chronicle, clue one in, depict, describe, detail, disclose, divulge, express, get off one's chest, give the word, impart, itemize, lay it on the line, let one's hair down, narrate, particularize, picture, present, recite, recount, rehearse, report, retell, reveal, run down, run through, set forth, shoot the breeze, sling, spill, spill the beans, spin a yarn, state, tell, track, verbalize |
| Notes: | both recount and relate mean 'to tell, to give an account of,' but recount adds the semantic component 'in detail' |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
| Main Entry: | cut loose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | let loose |
| Synonyms: | go berserk, kick up one's heels, let go, let one's hair down, run amok, run riot, run wild |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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