Told
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intransitive verb.
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
Preterit and past participle of
tell
.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
imp. & p. p. of
tell
.
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verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of
tell
.
Word Usage
"She needed but to be told a good thing -- I do not say _told that a thing was good_ -- and at once she received it -- that is, obeyed it, the _only_ way of receiving a truth."