disclose
disc·lose
verb
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”
- “;”
Origin
From Middle English disclosen, from Middle French desclos, from Old French desclore, itself from Vulgar Latin disclaudere, from Latin dis- + claudere (“to close, shut”) or as a variant of discludo, discludere (cf. disclude). By surface analysis, dis- + close.
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