tell
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(verb) discern or comprehend; "He could tell that she was unhappy" |
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Related Words: guess, infer |
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(verb) let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late" |
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Related Words: air, announce, annunciate, bare, bespeak, betoken, break, bring out, declare, digress, disclose, discover, divagate, divulge, expose, foretell, give, give away, harbinger, herald, impart, indicate, inform, ingeminate, iterate, leave, let on, let out, pass on, point, propagandize, publicise, publicize, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell, reveal, signal, stray, talk, wander |
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(verb) narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" |
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Synonyms: narrate, recite, recount, spin |
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Related Words: inform, relate, rhapsodize, yarn |
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(verb) reveal; "a telling sign" |
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Synonyms: ascertain, demonstrate, evidence |
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Related Words: confirm, reassert |
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(noun) a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap) |
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Synonyms: William Tell |
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Related Words: archer, bowman |
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(verb) tell somebody to do something; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping" |
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Synonyms: enjoin, order, say |
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Related Words: call, command, compel, direct, instruct, request, require, send for |
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(verb) state positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!" |
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Synonyms: assure |
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Related Words: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, swear |
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(verb) express an idea, etc. in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion" |
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Synonyms: say, state |
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Related Words: add, announce, answer, append, articulate, declare, enunciate, explain, express, get out, give, give tongue to, introduce, lay out, mention, misstate, note, observe, play down, preface, premise, present, remark, reply, respond, soft-pedal, supply, utter, vocalize |
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(verb) mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" |
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Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalize, tell apart |
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Related Words: contradistinguish, contrast, demarcate, discriminate, dissociate, identify, individualize, know, know apart, label, place, separate, severalize, sex, single out, stratify |
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