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told the truth

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

Meaning of tell the truth

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tell, truth.
    • That year a U.S. appeals court found the program Snowden had exposed was unlawful and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.2022 September 26, “Putin grants Russian citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Snowden”, in Mark Trevelyan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022, Europe

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Questions about told the truth

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

Words near told the truth in the dictionary

  1. told someone where to get off
  2. told someone where to shove it
  3. told tales
  4. told tales out of school
  5. told the time
  6. told the truth
  7. told the truth and shamed the devil
  8. told time
  9. told volumes
  10. told you
  11. told you so

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