Definitions for told

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told told

Spelling: [tohld]

IPA: /toʊld/

Told is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in told (dlot).

Definitions for told

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of tell1 .

Idioms

1. all told, counting everyone or everything; in all:
2. tell it like it is, Informal. to tell the complete, unadulterated truth; be forthright:

Verb phrases

1. tell off, to separate from the whole and assign to a particular duty. Informal. to rebuke severely; scold:
2. tell on, to tattle on (someone).

verb (used with object)

1. to give an account or narrative of; narrate; relate (a story, tale, etc.):
2. to make known by speech or writing (a fact, news, information, etc.); communicate.
3. to announce or proclaim.
4. to utter (the truth, a lie, etc.).
5. to express in words (thoughts, feelings, etc.).
6. to reveal or divulge (something secret or private).
7. to say plainly or positively:
8. to discern or recognize (a distant person or thing) so as to be able to identify or describe:
9. to distinguish; discriminate; ascertain:
10. to inform (a person) of something:
11. to assure emphatically:
12. to bid, order, or command:
13. to mention one after another, as in enumerating; count or set one by one or in exact amount:

verb (used without object)

1. to give an account or report:
2. to give evidence or be an indication:
3. to disclose something secret or private; inform; tattle:
4. to say positively; determine; predict:
5. to have force or effect; operate effectively:
6. to produce a marked or severe effect:
7. British Dialect. to talk or chat.

Origin of told

before 900; Middle English tellen, Old English tellan to relate, count; cognate with Dutch tellen to reckon, count, Old Norse telja to count, say, Old High German zellēn; akin to Examples for told

Might not the same history be told of much that is believed?

He took me right into his office, and I told him what you said, and he'll be ready for you at two o'clock.

They gently raised him, bolstered him with pillows, and told him he had long been ill.

On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.

This is a blow against freedom of speech, we were told, by the likes of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson.

“We quietly did,” Reed previously told The Daily Beast of removing ISIS.

I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Eudora's countenance kindled with indignation, as she listened to what Milza had told.

“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.

Yes, dearest Philothea; but not till she had first told me of her own marriage with Geta.