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informs on

informs on is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 informs on

What is informs on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Informs on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inform on.

Words near informs on in the dictionary

  1. informors
  2. informour
  3. informours
  4. informous
  5. informs
  6. informs on
  7. informulable
  8. INFORSE
  9. infortitude
  10. infortunate
  11. infortune

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Adapted from Wiktionary: informs 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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