blab
1. divulge confidential information or secrets (Freq. 1)
- Be careful--his secretary talks
• Syn:
spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, peach,
babble, sing, babble out, blab out
• Ant:
keep quiet (for: talk)
• Derivationally related forms:
singing (for: sing), blabber, tattle (for: tattle), tattler (for: tattle), talkative (for: talk), talk (for: talk)
• Hypernyms:
unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal,
discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out
• Verb Group:
spill, talk
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something (for: blab out)
- Somebody ----s something (for: babble out)
2. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
• Syn:
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle,
twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, gibber, tattle,
blabber, gabble
• Derivationally related forms:
gabble (for: gabble), blabber (for: blabber), prattler (for: prattle), prattle (for: prattle), twaddler (for: twaddle), twaddle (for: twaddle), tittle-tattle (for: tittle-tattle), prater (for: prate), prate (for: prate), palaver (for: palaver), piffle (for: piffle), chatter (for: chatter), chatterer (for: chatter)
• Hypernyms:
talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
• Hyponyms:
babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
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