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informed on

informed on is the simple past and past participle of inform on.

Meaning of inform on

Verb

inform on (third-person singular simple present informs on, present participle informing on, simple past and past participle informed on)

  1. To tell on someone; to act as an informant against.
    • In 1983, one of his friends informed on him for reading a forbidden book, and he lost his teaching job.2013 May 24, Emily Parker, “Bulgakov's Ghost”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 May 2022
    Synonyms:
    finger, grass up, snitch

Questions about informed on

What is informed on the simple past and past participle of?
Informed on is the simple past and past participle of inform on.

Words near informed on in the dictionary

  1. informavore
  2. informavores
  3. informed
  4. informed consent
  5. informed consents
  6. informed on
  7. informedly
  8. informedness
  9. informee
  10. informees
  11. informer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: informed on (page history and authors); inform on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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