tell

tell [-ing, -s, told] v

OE.

1. Inform; report; let know.
2. Assure; comfort; convince; soothe; console.
3. Recount; narrate; recite.
4. Calculate; compute; figure; reckon.
5. Announce; declare; disclose; divulge; reveal; expose.
6. Command; order; require.
7. Say; explain; verbalize; express in words.
8. Understand; comprehend.
9. Repeat; utter again and again.
10. Confide in; trust with confidential matters.
11. Ask; petition; request.
12. Speak.1409/Fr1456 of the Minds / That told the Truth to me
13. Communicate; convey; transmit; impart; [polyptoton of tell, tale, and told from the same root].