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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

See Examples For:

told

But as the date approached, the CMS told her it had still not obtained the order.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

“It blows my mind that people could be so cruel,” she told the New York Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

But she has told Panorama the service does not work.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

"They came over and said I had to leave. The staff member said I'd been identified by the AI, and the cameras had flagged me," he told BBC London.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

“La, remember when you first started to Flash, and I told you I didn’t want to know what you saw?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Related Words

• declared
• disclosed
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