tell

• acknowledge
• acquaint
• adjure
• admit
• advertise
• advise
• affirm
• air
• alert
• allege
• announce
• appoint
• apprise
• articulate
• ask
• assert
• assign
• assure
• authorize
• aver
• avouch
• avow
• bare
• beg
• beseech
• betray
• bid
• blab
• blabber
• blaze
• blurt
• bolt
• breathe
• brief
• bring out
• bring to light
• broadcast
• calculate
• catch up
• certify
• charge
• chart
• check
• chirp
• chronicle
• clear
• clothe
• coerce
• command
• comment
• commission
• communicate
• compel
• compute
• concede
• conduct
• confess
• confide
• constrain
• control
• convince
• couch
• counsel
• count
• debunk
• declare
• delineate
• deliver
• depict
• describe
• detail
• direct
• disabuse
• disclose
• discover
• discuss
• disenchant
• disillusion
• disinter
• divulge
• drawl
• educate
• enjoin
• enlighten
• entreat
• enumerate
• enunciate
• expose
• express
• familiarize
• fill in
• force
• formulate
• formulize
• gasp
• get off
• give
• give away
• hip
• impart
• inform
• instruct
• itemize
• lead
• leak
• lecture
• let someone know
• lip
• look
• manage
• mark
• mouth
• murmur
• narrate
• notify
• number
• oblige
• order
• oversee
• own
• particularize
• pass
• petition
• phrase
• placard
• post
• proclaim
• promulgate
• publicize
• publish
• purr
• put
• put into words
• rake up
• reassure
• recite
• reckon
• recount
• reel off
• rehearse
• relate
• remark
• render
• report
• request
• require
• reveal
• say
• school
• set forth
• share
• shoot
• shout
• show up
• sketch
• smoke out
• snarl
• sound
• speak
• spill
• splutter
• spout
• squeal
• state
• superintend
• supervise
• table
• tabulate
• talk
• tally
• teach
• total
• tutor
• unbosom
• uncloak
• unclothe
• uncover
• undeceive
• undrape
• unearth
• unmask
• unveil
• utter
• vent
• ventilate
• verbalize
• verse
• vocalize
• voice
• warn
• warrant
• whisper
• word

• becloud
• bedim
• befog
• camouflage
• cloak
• cloud
• conceal
• darken
• disguise
• eclipse
• enshroud
• follow
• gild
• hide
• keep
• mask
• mind
• misinform
• mislead
• obey
• obscure
• observe
• overcast
• overshadow
• shade
• shroud
• stifle
• suppress
• varnish
• veil
• whitewash

• noun
  1. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
  2. That which is told; a tale or account.
  3. A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
  4. A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
• verb
  1. (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
  2. To narrate.
  3. To convey by speech; to say.
  4. To instruct or inform.
  5. To order; to direct, to say to someone.
  6. To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
  7. To reveal.
  8. To be revealed.
  9. To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
  10. To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
  11. To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
  12. (authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show.

• Please tell me the truth about what happened.
• He forgot to tell her about the meeting.
• I can tell that you're upset by your expression.
• Did she tell you the good news yet?
• It's hard to tell whether he's joking or serious.

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narrate

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