disclose
v.v. to share a secret or give out information that was hidden before. You often see this in news about business or the law.
v. to make secret or new information known. Often carries a formal or legal connotation regarding the release of previously restricted data.
The company must disclose its profits every year.
Under the new agreement, the celebrity was required to disclose any paid partnerships in her social media posts.
The whistleblower refused to disclose the identity of his source, citing a moral obligation to protect those who had risked their careers to expose the truth.
From Middle English disclosen, from Middle French desclos, from Old French desclore, itself from Vulgar Latin disclaudere, from Latin dis- + claudere (“to close, shut”) or as a variant of discludo, discludere (cf. disclude). By surface analysis, dis- + close.
The verb is transitive and takes a direct object; it is frequently used in passive constructions in legal contexts.
disclose about the secretdisclose the secretDisclose is a transitive verb and does not take the preposition 'about'.