BLAB (blabbed, blabbing)

 Dictionary entry overview: What does blab mean? 

• BLAB (verb)
  The verb BLAB has 2 senses:

1. divulge confidential information or secrets
2. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

  Familiarity information: BLAB used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLAB (verb)

Meaning:

Divulge confidential information or secrets

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

Be careful--his secretary talks

Hypernyms (to "blab" is one way to...):

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; impart; let on; let out; reveal; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Meaning:

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

tittle-tattle; tattle; prattle; prate; piffle; palaver; gibber; gabble; twaddle; blabber; blab; maunder; clack; chatter

Hypernyms (to "blab" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blab"):

babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter (to talk foolishly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s