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tell

English

  1. 🔊 a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer
  2. 🔊 discern or comprehend
    “He could tell that she was unhappy”
  3. 🔊 let something be known
    “Tell them that you will be late”
  4. 🔊 narrate or give a detailed account of
    “Tell what happened”
  5. 🔊 give evidence
    “he was telling on all his former colleague”
  6. 🔊 give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
    “I said to him to go home”
  7. 🔊 inform positively and with certainty and confidence
    “I tell you that man is a crook!”
  8. 🔊 express in words
    “He said that he wanted to marry her”
  9. 🔊 mark as different
    “We distinguish several kinds of maple”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 tell tell
  2. 🔊 devisar to tell
  3. 🔊 relatar to tell
  4. 🔊 avisar to tell, tip off, notify, inform
  5. 🔊 saber to tell, to know (i.e. to discern or distinguish if something is the case)

Similar words

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