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told apart

told apart is the simple past and past participle of tell apart.

Meaning of tell apart

Verb

tell apart (third-person singular simple present tells apart, present participle telling apart, simple past and past participle told apart)

  1. (idiomatic) To perceive things as different, or to perceive their difference itself; to differentiate, distinguish, discriminate.
    • They are identical twins, and if they dress the same, everybody has trouble telling them apart.

Questions about told apart

What is told apart the simple past and past participle of?
Told apart is the simple past and past participle of tell apart.

Words near told apart in the dictionary

  1. tolclofos-methyl
  2. told
  3. told a story
  4. told against
  5. told all
  6. told apart
  7. told fortunes
  8. told it like it is
  9. told it to the hand
  10. told its own tale
  11. told noses

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