verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reveal/divulge a secret formal (= tell it to someone )
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He was accused of revealing state secrets.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
detail
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Later he indiscreetly divulged those details at dinner with Ferdinand Berthoud, though he swore he intended no wrongdoing.
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San Francisco police say the matter is still under investigation and refuse to divulge details of their probe.
information
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Yet the Committees can not force ministers and civil servants to divulge information .
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In a letter to his House colleagues Thursday, Rangel strongly denied he had divulged confidential information .
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Female speaker I am very disturbed by people who are therapists who seem to be divulging private information about their clients.
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I thought - I thought the case would be solved without my needing to divulge this information .
secret
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Death was the alleged penalty for those who divulged the secrets of the order.
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You just didn't say those sort of things, or divulge such secrets , about your wife.
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However the Phoenix Guard never divulge their secrets and no one has ever seen the Chamber of Days and lived.
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Perhaps she could seal their reconciliation by divulging her secret .
■ VERB
refuse
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More vehemently than ever, Mr Kohl refused to divulge the names of his other benefactors.
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Hill refused to divulge the cost of FoxTrax.
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And yet he refused to divulge Father O'Neill's whereabouts.
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However, Roeser refused to divulge where the Clippers will play next season.
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San Francisco police say the matter is still under investigation and refuse to divulge details of their probe.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A spokeswoman for the company would not divulge the salaries paid to top managers.
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I'm afraid I cannot divulge what Jameson said to me.
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The contract forbids employees to divulge details of this work to anyone outside the company.
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The other three companies refused to divulge their plans.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I thought - I thought the case would be solved without my needing to divulge this information.
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She hinted of an important secret still to be divulged.
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She would never divulge to Mattie that she had been second choice when Judge Tembleton could not do it.
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There also are secret ingredients that she will not divulge .
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Yet the Committees can not force ministers and civil servants to divulge information.