tells

Meaning

third-person singular simple present indicative of tell

tells

say

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɛlz/

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tell

1. To count, reckon, or enumerate.
2. To narrate, to recount.
3. To convey by speech; to say.
4. To instruct or inform.
5. To order; to direct, to say to someone.
6. To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
7. To reveal.
8. To be revealed.
9. To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
10. To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
11. To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
12. To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

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Elizabeth tells the angry
😠

crowd to let Abigail live .

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