make known

English

Verb

make known (third-person singular simple present makes known, present participle making known, simple past and past participle made known)

1. (transitive) To announce (some information) generally.

   The decision was made known when it appeared on the evening news.

   • 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Tube trains from Derby”, in Trains Illustrated, page 706:

     This was announced in October when details of a £4 million order for car bodies and bogies to complete the Central and Piccadilly Line's rolling stock renewal programmes with 619 more "1959 Stock" cars were made known.

2. (transitive) To disclose (a secret).

   I wouldn't make this known to anyone else, if I were you.

Synonyms

• (announce): declare, proclaim; See also Thesaurus:announce
• (disclose): reveal, spill one's guts, unfold; See also Thesaurus:divulge

Translations

to announce generally

• Catalan: donar a conèixer
• Finnish: julkistaa (fi)
• German: bekanntmachen, verkünden (de)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gakannjan), 𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (kannjan), 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaswikunþjan)
• Irish: scaoil
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: praedicō (la)
• Romanian: anunța (ro)
• Spanish: dar a conocer, anunciar (es)
• Telugu: తెలియజేయు (te) (teliyajēyu)

to disclose a secret

• Finnish: paljastaa (fi)
• German: verraten (de), ausplaudern (de), weitersagen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: scaoil
• Romanian: divulga (ro)
• Spanish: revelar (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} konigi
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} konocigar (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} anunciar (es)