Divulge vs Drawl - What's the difference?
divulge | drawl | Related terms |
To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.
* Divulge not such a love as mine. - .
To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
* God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven. -- .
To drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.
To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy mannner.
To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
* Landor
a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some .
Divulge is a related term of drawl.
As verbs the difference between divulge and drawl
is that divulge is to make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret while drawl is to drag on slowly and heavily; while or dawdle away time indolently.As a noun drawl is
a way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together characteristic of some.divulge
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(divulg)Synonyms
* bewray, bring out, uncover, disclose, discover, expose, give away, impart, let on, let out, revealDerived terms
* divulgation (Webster 1913)drawl
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- Theologians and moralists talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it.
