let on

2 definitions found

let on - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  let on
      v 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't reveal how
           old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to
           her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn:
           unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal,
           discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out
           ]

let on - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "let on":
     acknowledge, act, act a part, admit, admit everything, affect,
     allow, assume, avow, betray, bluff, come clean, concede, confess,
     cop a plea, counterfeit, cover up, disclose, dissemble,
     dissimulate, divulge, fake, feign, four-flush, gammon, give away,
     grant, let on like, let out, make a pretense, make as if,
     make believe, make like, open up, out with it, own, own up, play,
     play a part, play possum, playact, plead guilty, pretend, profess,
     put on, sham, simulate, spill, spill it, spit it out, tell,
     tell all, tell the truth, uncover