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LET ON
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
Example:
The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings
Synonyms:
break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "let on" is one way to...):
tell (let something be known)
Cause:
break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)
Verb group:
break; get around; get out (be released or become known; of news)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "let on"):
blackwash (bring (information) out of concealment)
muckrake (explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures)
blow (cause to be revealed and jeopardized)
out (reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle)
come out; come out of the closet; out (to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality)
spring (produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly)
betray; bewray (reveal unintentionally)
confide (reveal in private; tell confidentially)
leak (tell anonymously)
babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)
reveal (disclose directly or through prophets)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sentence example:
They let on that there was a traffic accident
