told

[tohld]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of tell.

told

/ təʊld /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of tell 1

adjective

1. See all told

Other Word Forms

• well-told adjective

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.

Example Sentences

One teenage boy from Sheffield, who says he has taken knives to school, told us: "I just felt like I need to protect myself."

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In addition, as of Wednesday night, Hamas had not yet received the final list of Palestinian prisoners that Israel plans to release in exchange for the hostages in Gaza, a Palestinian source told the BBC.

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“He was a really great guy,” Wolfgang Welch, general manager of nearby Vanity nightclub, told Gazetteer.

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A senior White House official told CBS, the BBC's US news partner, that "our assessment is that hostages will begin getting released on Monday".

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In his Instagram post about the incident, O’Keefe alleged that a friend of the woman who scolded his manner of sitting told him, “You’re not the minority anymore.”

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