"tell on" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: tells on [present, singular, third-person], telling on [participle, present], told on [participle, past], told on [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|tell<,,told> on}} tell on (third-person singular simple present tells on, present participle telling on, simple past and past participle told on)
  1. (usually childish) To inform on, to rat out; to tell a person in authority that someone else has done something wrong. Tags: childish, usually Synonyms: bewray [archaic] Related terms: rat out Translations (to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong): žalovat (Czech), sladre (Danish), klikken (Dutch), kannella (Finnish), balancer (French), verpetzen (German), beárul (Hungarian), árulkodik (Hungarian), skarżyć [imperfective] (Polish), poskarżyć [perfective] (Polish), dedurar (Portuguese), pârî (Romanian), я́бедничать (jábedničatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), ная́бедничать (najábedničatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), стуча́ть (stučátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), настуча́ть (nastučátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), skvallra (Swedish), tjalla (Swedish), magsumbong (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-tell_on-en-verb-pjtMh~wk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (on) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (on): 73 27 Disambiguation of 'to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong': 93 7
  2. To cause visible strain to.
    Sense id: en-tell_on-en-verb-0z3HPtHd

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for tell on meaning in All languages combined (4.5kB)

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      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
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      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
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      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
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      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
      "word": "balancer"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
      "word": "verpetzen"
    },
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
      "word": "dedurar"
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      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
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      "roman": "jábedničatʹ",
      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "я́бедничать"
    },
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      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
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      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
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    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
      "word": "skvallra"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
      "word": "tjalla"
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      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "to tell someone that someone else has done something wrong",
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