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told

Definition for told

adjective as in announced

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declared, disclosed, issued, released, reported

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broadcast, circulated, communicated, divulged, publicized, revealed

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declared publicly, made public

adjective as in explained

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elucidated, interpreted, related

adjective as in legendary

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fabled, fabulous, mythical, storied

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allegorical, apocryphal, created, customary, doubtful, dubious, fabricated, fanciful, figmental, handed-down, imaginary, imaginative, improbable, invented, mythological, related, romantic, traditional, unhistoric, unhistorical, unreal, unverifiable

adjective as in manifest

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glaring, palpable, unambiguous, unmistakable

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bold, clear-cut, disclosed, divulged, evidenced, evinced, open, patent, plain, revealed, shown

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apparent, big as life, conspicuous, crystal clear, distinct, evident, noticeable, prominent, straightforward, visible

adjective as in mentioned

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cited, quoted, specified, voiced

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communicated, considered, declared, discussed, intimated, named, revealed, suggested

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brought up, made known, referred to, spoken of

adjective as in numbered

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categorized, checked, contained, counted, designated, doomed, enumerated, fated, fixed, included, indicated, marked, specified, totalled

adjective as in oral

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lingual, sonant, vocal

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articulate, ejaculatory, narrated, phonated, phonetic, phonic, recounted, related, said, sounded, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, voiced, word-of-mouth

adjective as in professed

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acknowledged, announced, declared, pledged

adjective as in rumored

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broadcast, bruited, circulating, gossiped, prevailing, said

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all over town, given out, going around, rife

adjective as in spoken

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announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, mentioned, said, voiced

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lingual, oral, phonetic, unwritten, verbal

adjective as in spoken

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announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, mentioned, said, uttered, voiced

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lingual, oral, phonetic, phonic, put into words, sonant, traditional, unwritten, verbal, viva voce

adjective as in stated

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certain, declared, fixed

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adjective as in verbal

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rhetorical, unwritten

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exact, expressed, lexical, lingual, literal, oral, phrasal, said, stated, verbatim, word-for-word, word-of-mouth

adjective as in warned

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advised, cautioned, informed, notified

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Example Sentences

"She taught me what I needed to know and then after that she told me that I could just go for a walk and just take a breather."

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"While they are not profitable for large-scale industrial mining, they are profitable for small-scaling mining," he told the BBC Focus on Africa podcast.

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"As to whether I am accused of being a macho man - moi?" he told the Commons.

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Hours earlier, the US State Department told the media that an American man died in the tourist town of Vang Vieng.

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“It will always be fluid, and this is why regulators like eSafety have to be nimble,” she told BBC Radio 5 Live.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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