inform against/on sb
— phrasal verb with inform uk/ɪnˈfɔːm/us/ɪnˈfɔːrm/verb [ T ]
If you inform on/against someone, you give the police information, usually secretly, about that person, showing that he or she has done something wrong:
The terrorists said that anyone caught informing on them would be killed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revealing secrets & becoming known
- (the) word is/gets out idiom
- bare
- be the talk of the town idiom
- break cover idiom
- cat
- come out
- fink
- get around (somewhere)
- give sth away
- King's evidence
- leak
- let the cat out of the bag idiom
- open your heart to someone idiom
- sneak
- spill the beans idiom
- take the wraps off sth idiom
- tell on sb
- tongues wagging idiom
- turn
- unmask
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