Thesaurus:rat out
English
Verb
Sense: to reveal information to an authority
Synonyms
- bewray
- blow the whistle
- clepe (chiefly dialect)
- denounce
- dime (US)
- dob
- drop a dime (US)
- drop a dime on someone (US)
- finger [⇒ thesaurus]
- fink (chiefly US)
- fizgig (Australia)
- inform [⇒ thesaurus]
- inform on
- grass on (chiefly UK)
- grass up (chiefly UK)
- lolly up
- name names
- nark
- peach
- rat on
- rat out
- roll on
- sing [⇒ thesaurus]
- snitch
- snitch up
- squeak
- squeal
- tattle [⇒ thesaurus] (childish)
- tell
- tell all
- tell on (childish)
- tell tales
- tip off
- turn in
Hypernyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- “529. disclosure” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “rat out” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.