Word Finder - told

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(archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.

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All told, there were over a dozen.  Can you tell time on a clock?  He had untold wealth.

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To narrate.

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I want to tell a story;  I want to tell you a story.

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To convey by speech; to say.

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Finally, someone told him the truth.  He seems to like to tell lies.

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To instruct or inform.

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Please tell me how to do it.

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To order; to direct, to say to someone.

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Tell him to go away.

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To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

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Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?  No, there's no way to tell.

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To reveal.

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Time will tell what became of him.

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To be revealed.

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To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.

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Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.

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To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.

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To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.

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I saw you steal those sweets! I'm going to tell!

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(authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

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Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.

I told you not to give my number to anyone.

Has Alex told you about the party?

I've told myself that a hundred times.

They told him about the wonderful things they had seen there.

Mom told me that Dad forgave her for her affair with Señor Medena.

I wish you had told me.

Has anybody ever told you that you're beautiful?

He knew exactly what he wanted and I told him we would buy it for him.

Because you told me to, remember?

At first, when my teacher told me about a new thing I asked very few questions.

Towards evening he told his men to ride home by the main road while he went by another way that was somewhat longer.

How many times have I told you not to leave the house at night in your bare feet?

He didn't act concerned when she told him she had looked at them - not until she questioned the source.

Alex must have told the carpenters to stop working so she could sleep during the day.

On moving to the drawing room he handed the letter to Princess Mary and, spreading out before him the plan of the new building and fixing his eyes upon it, told her to read the letter aloud.

The memory was poignant, overshadowed by events that took place after she told Alex she was expecting.

Howard hadn't told her.

Then they told him dinner would be served directly and he replied that they could not serve it too quickly to suit his convenience.

Otanes answered, I have already told two of your men that I have forty pieces of gold in my hat.

She immediately told him about the incident with Jonathan and Alfonso and he simply nodded.

I told Morino last night that I would look at them before we left.

The man told him he needed to get rid of me and Yancey told him he'd deal with me in his own way.

How much had he told Señor Medena - or how little?

I asked a few questions and was quickly told to mind my own business.

Maybe she should have told Len about the exchange.

She told him about everything but the kiss.

Dulce motioned to Carmen from a hallway, so Carmen told Alex to take the children up and she would be up shortly.

No doubt he told them that Alexia had died, because after Jonathan's statement, that would be easiest.

Once she asked for daddy, but went back to sleep when Carmen told her he was asleep.

He says he thinks he has a cold, but the doctor told me he could get pneumonia real easy.

Instinct told her his threat wasn't simply the liquor talking.

On the way to town, she told Len about the car and how she had come to meet the Giddon family.

I told you that I was very happy because of your happiness.

I told you there was nothing going on between us.

It was something she had been told often, but never expected to be asked.

Connie would have told Len about the fact that Yancey didn't want to give her his phone number.

She thought he was a friend and told him you were at the house.

I told you it was bad.

While Cynthia didn't answer, her eyes told him if he did poke around, he'd better not get himself in deep do-do doing it.

Some time later, the shepherd went to the city and told the king that the children had learned to speak one word, but how or from whom, he did not know.

The prattle of the little ones and their pleasure in the stories I told them of elf and gnome, of hero and wily bear, are pleasant things to remember.

I told them all I knew about them.

He simply said he would have told her to bring something else.

She just told us yesterday.

It came in the form of a drone who told him in her second language that information of that kind was not available.

The judge told us not to discuss the case.

One look told her he'd been up to no good.

They were so nasty when he told them about me we both found it simpler to ignore the jerks.

I told her about the back entrance to the mine.

He told Simonides he was only going to pay him half the fee and if he wanted the other half, he should collect it from Castor and Pollux.