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Divulge vs. Diverge — What's the Difference?

Divulge vs. Diverge — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Divulge and Diverge

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Divulge

To make known (something private or secret).

Diverge

To go or extend in different directions from a common point; branch out
"All modern species diverged from a set of ancestors" (Jennifer Ackerman).

Divulge

(Archaic) To proclaim publicly.

Diverge

To depart from an established pattern or norm; deviate.

Divulge

(transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known.
I will never divulge that secret to anyone.
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Diverge

To be different, as in opinion or manner; differ
Opinions diverged within the government on how to deal with the crisis.

Divulge

To indicate publicly; to proclaim.

Diverge

(Mathematics) To fail to approach a limit.

Divulge

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.

Diverge

To cause (light rays, for example) to diverge; deflect.

Divulge

To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
God . . . marksThe just man, and divulges him through heaven.

Diverge

To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

Divulge

To impart; to communicate.
Which would not be
To them [animals] made common and divulged.

Diverge

To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.

Divulge

To become publicly known.

Diverge

To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.

Divulge

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

Diverge

To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.

Diverge

Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
The sequence x_n = n^2 diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

Diverge

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); - opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

Diverge

To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

Diverge

Move or draw apart;
The two paths diverge here

Diverge

Approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit

Diverge

Extend in a different direction;
The lines start to diverge here
Their interests diverged

Diverge

Be at variance with; be out of line with

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