noun
verb
- Utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way.
- usage: "The old man is only babbling-don't pay attention"
- synonyms: babble
- To talk foolishly.
- usage: "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"
- Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise.
- usage: "babbling brooks"
- Divulge confidential information or secrets.
- usage: "Be careful-his secretary talks"
- synonyms: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
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