Declare
Spill
Spill verb - To make known (as information previously kept secret).
Usage example: the actor's butler spilled the secret to a tabloid for $40,000
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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As he's about to spill the beans, Phantom Limb calls in the Strangers to freeze everyone in ice and administer either memory wipes or hypnotic suggestions to the room, thereby making Orpheus declare that Monarch is guilty of crimes he didn't commit.
Source: He Knows Too Much -
Rather than make a ruckus, however, Oswald makes sure that everything is tidy (an easy way to keep him occupied for a day is to spill a bowl of sugar; he'll carefully put it back grain by grain), leading Miss Level to declare him an ondageist.
Source: Poltergeist
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