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told on

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

Meaning of tell on

Verb

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

  1. (childish, usually) To inform on, to rat out; to tell a person in authority that someone else has done something wrong.
    • My sister told on me when I didn't go to school.
    Synonyms:
    bewray
  2. To cause visible strain to.
    • Years of drinking started to tell on his body.

Questions about told on

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

Words near told on in the dictionary

  1. told it to the hand
  2. told its own tale
  3. told noses
  4. told of
  5. told off
  6. told on
  7. told someone where to get off
  8. told someone where to shove it
  9. told tales
  10. told tales out of school
  11. told the time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: told on (page history and authors); tell 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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