Thesaurus / tells
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synonyms for tells
- advise
- announce
- confess
- declare
- disclose
- explain
- express
- inform
- instruct
- mention
- notify
- order
- report
- reveal
- say
- speak
- state
- summon
- acquaint
- apprise
- authorize
- bid
- command
- direct
- divulge
- enjoin
- impart
- leak
- level
- proclaim
- recite
- represent
- require
- utter
- break the news
- call upon
- clue in
- fill in
- give facts
- give out
- keep posted
- lay open
- leave word
- let in on
- let know
- let slip
- make known
- open up
- put before
- reel off
- spit it out
- portray
- express
- state
- recount
- report
- speak
- relate
- depict
- rehearse
- chronicle
- give an account of
- set forth
- see
- identify
- know
- learn
- discriminate
- recognize
- clinch
- discover
- perceive
- comprehend
- deduce
- differentiate
- determine
- ascertain
- distinguish
- divine
- find out
- make out
- be sure
- know for certain
- count
- weigh
- register
- militate
- have effect
- have force
- make presence felt
- make presence known
- take effect
- take its toll
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It is a lofty and richly-decorated pile of the fourteenth century; and tells of the labours and the wealth of a foreign land.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSMy mother now tells me that she knew of this mistake, an error of the New York paper in copying the item from a Southern journal.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANI saw Cardinal de Giovenozzo this morning; and he tells me that Wharton has disappeared.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERA verbal narrative has of course in itself nothing similar to the scenes and events of which it tells.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYHe tells me several men have already been shot whilst bathing but there is no use trying to stop it: they take the off chance.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONClodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDI have called on him this morning and his wife tells me that he left for the North yesterday afternoon.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEHe not only repudiates the name “Jahveh,” but tells the official agents of Jahvism that their god is his devil.
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAYA friend of mine tells me that he smokes every day, at a cost of about sixpence a-week.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.The first volume tells all about the gittin' up of the subscription and the sailin' of the wessel.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYD