told

[ tohld ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of tell ¹.

told

/ təʊld /

verb

1. See tell
   the past tense and past participle of tell 1

adjective

1. See all told
   See all told

Other Words From

• well-told adjective

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

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

   There were 50 guests all told.

More idioms and phrases containing told

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

Example Sentences

“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.

From The Daily Beast

Police officials told the AP that they came out with guns blazing.

From The Daily Beast

Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

The blood that accused his friend in his heart, rushed to his face, when he repeated what had been told him.

From Project Gutenberg

Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.

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Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.

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But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.

From Project Gutenberg

In passing to her own chamber she met the Emperor, and, in the agitation of her maternal fears, told him all that had passed.

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Related Words

• declared
• disclosed
• issued
• released
• reported