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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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

told

“It never gets old,” Boucher told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Pope Leo XIV's health should not be taken "for granted", a British senior Vatican official told the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

“We’re not competing well in soft drinks,” Laguarta told analysts on the most recent earnings call this month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

"Our customers' data is safe with us," Hallvard Nerbovik, its marketing and communications director, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Corps members are divided by skill—writers, interpreters, and artists—and are told to develop messages that urge the town’s inhabitants to come down from the nearby hills and mountains where they have sought refuge.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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