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[syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
let on
v 1: make known to the public information that was previously
known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a
secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at
which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how
old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to
her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn:
unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal,
discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let
out]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "let on":
acknowledge, act, act a part, admit, admit everything, affect,
allow, assume, avow, betray, bluff, come clean, concede, confess,
cop a plea, counterfeit, cover up, disclose, dissemble,
dissimulate, divulge, fake, feign, four-flush, gammon, give away,
grant, let on like, let out, make a pretense, make as if,
make believe, make like, open up, out with it, own, own up, play,
play a part, play possum, playact, plead guilty, pretend, profess,
put on, sham, simulate, spill, spill it, spit it out, tell,
tell all, tell the truth, uncover