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• past tense form of tell.
• past participle of tell.

told

American  

[tohld] / toʊld /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of tell.

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idioms

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

   There were 50 guests all told.

told British  

/ təʊld /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of tell 1

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adjective

1. See all told

told More Idioms  

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

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Other Word Forms

• well-told
  adjective

Example Sentences

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told

“I thought the story was really fully told,” he told the Telluride crowd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

"This is beyond my imagination," Dambrauskas told BBC Sport.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

“For those of you who don’t know who we are and are disappointed, I apologize,” Fielder, joined onstage by Oppenheim, told the crowd to laughs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Sophia, 17, told us it was very sad but this is what life was like now.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Still, she doesn’t want to go to Novaliches—especially after what Father Monaghan has told her about Tala.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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