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told

[tohld]

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of tell.



told

/ əʊ /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of tell 1

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adjective

  1. See all told

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • well-told adjective
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. all told, counting everyone or everything; in all.

    There were 50 guests all told.

see all told; I told you so; little bird told me. also see under tell.
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Example Sentences

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Hours later, in an evening address, he mourned the dead, telling the nation: "This is a difficult day. I told you, there will be difficult days."

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“Any demonstration has to be peaceful,” she told reporters Friday.

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“I studied very, very carefully how he approached a scene, used point of view, what he described and what he didn’t, how he told so much just in the way a character talked.”

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Ramirez, 25, said when he got home from work on June 9, family members who were home at the time told him what happened, and a neighbor showed him video of the incident.

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Then he told me to take a few steps to the left.

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