told
[tohld]
verb
simple past tense and past participle of tell1.
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- tolerable,
- tolerance
Idioms
all told, counting everyone or everything; in all: There were 50 guests all told.
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told
past tense of tell, from Old English talde, past tense of tellan (see tell (v.)).
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all told
Added up, in summation, as in The ferry will hold 80 passengers all told, or All told, his proposal makes some good points. This idiom, first recorded in 1850, uses the verb tell in the sense of “count.”
told
see all told; I told you so; little bird told me. also see under tell.
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