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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

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told

Amanpour, 68, told colleagues in a memo she will step away from her eponymous daily CNN program at the end of the year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Dean Logan, the Los Angeles county clerk and recorder, told The Guardian his office refused to review the list, in part because they didn’t consider the USB drive to be secure.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Like it did Johnson, the government told me that I needed to go through a time-consuming administrative process with little chance of success before I could bring the case to a district court.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Its head Alain Di Crescenzo told France's broadcaster RTL that damage from the riots was estimated at "hundreds of millions of euros".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“While you were with Lafayette, your aunt called. She told me your dad could use some time alone.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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