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TELL

Definition:

1. [noun] a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)
   Synonyms: Tell, William Tell
   
   
2. [verb] express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
   Synonyms: state, say
   
   
3. [verb] let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late"
   
   
4. [verb] narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child"
   Synonyms: narrate, recount, recite
   
   
5. [verb] give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"
   Synonyms: order, enjoin, say
   
   
6. [verb] discern or comprehend; "He could tell that she was unhappy"
   
   
7. [verb] inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!"
   Synonyms: assure
   
   
8. [verb] give evidence; "he was telling on all his former colleague"
   Synonyms: evidence
   
   
9. [verb] mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
   Synonyms: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, apart
   
   

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Related Words:

• present, represent, lay out
• misstate
• answer, reply, respond
• precede, preface, premise, introduce
• announce, declare
• articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise
• get out
• declare
• declare
• note, observe, mention, remark
• add, append, supply
• explain
• give
• summarize, summarise, sum, sum up
• digress, stray, divagate, wander
• bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
• disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out
• spill, talk
• publicize, publicise, air, bare
• repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
• propagandize, propagandise
• announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald
• impart, leave, give, pass on
• relate
• crack
• yarn
• rhapsodize, rhapsodise
• direct
• instruct
• command, require, compel
• call, send for
• warn
• know
• discriminate, know apart
• label
• label
• sex
• individualize, individualise
• contrast
• severalize, severalise
• contradistinguish
• decouple, dissociate
• demarcate
• discriminate, separate, single out
• stratify

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