tell

v

1. narrate, relate, report, recount, rehearse, recite; describe, portray, depict, detail, explain; delineate, sketch, picture, paint; romance.

2. vociferate, voice, give mouth or voice to, air, vent, ventilate, communicate, let be known; impart, inform, Inf. tip off, utter, declare, Archaic. discover, break the news; reveal, make known, disclose, divulge, bring out, bring out into the open, bring to light; release, break, report, publish, Archaic. divulgate, print; advertise, broadcast, proclaim, announce, herald, trumpet.

3. disbosom, disembosom, get [s.t.] off one's chest, make a clean breast of [s.t.] unburden oneself, confess, Sl. fess up, own up, admit, acknowledge; blurt out, blab, leak, give away, Inf. let out, let slip, let the-cat out of bag, spill the beans, Sl. blow the lid off; Inf. give away the whole show, Sl. spill one's guts, Sl. open up; betray, Inf. blow the whistle on, Sl. pull the plug on, Inf. pull the rug out from underneath [s.o.]; tattle, tattletale, All Sl. squeal, squeak, rat, fink, stool, peach.

4. discern, make out, espy, perceive; recognize, identify.

5. command, order, direct, charge, adjure, instruct, dictate; require, demand, lay down the law, give orders, determine; bid, request.

6. count, enumerate, number; compute, reckon, calculate, tally, cast, sum up, estimate.

7. weigh, carry weight, have force, be influential