babble out

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Verb

babble out - divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"

blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, spill the beans, tattle, babble, talk, sing

disclose, let on, divulge, expose, give away, let out, reveal, unwrap, discover, bring out, break - 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"

talk, spill - reveal information; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details"

Translations

w>babble out

vt sep → brabbeln; secret → ausplaudern

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The discovery that babies babble out of the right side of their mouths is the latest evidence suggesting that the infantile sounds are more than noise, say Siobhan Holowka and Laura Ann Petitto of McGill University in Montreal.