tell

tell [v1] communicate acquaint, advise, announce, apprise, authorize, bid, break the news*, call upon, clue in*, command, confess, declare, direct, disclose, divulge, enjoin, explain, express, fill in*, give facts, give out, impart, inform, instruct, keep posted*, lay open*, leak, leave word, let in on*, let know, let slip*, level, make known, mention, notify, open up, order, proclaim, put before, recite, reel off*, report, represent, require, reveal, say, speak, spit it out*, state, summon, utter; concept 266 —Ant. listen tell [v2] narrate, describe chronicle, depict, express, give an account of, portray, recount, rehearse, relate, report, set forth, speak, state; concept 55 —Ant. listen tell [v3] understand, discern ascertain, be sure, clinch, comprehend, deduce, determine, differentiate, discover, discriminate, distinguish, divine, find out, identify, know, know for certain, learn, make out, perceive, recognize, see; concept 15 —Ant. misunderstand tell [v4] carry weight count, have effect, have force, make presence felt, make presence known, militate, register, take effect, take its toll*, weigh; concept 676 tell [v5] calculate compute, count, count one by one, enumerate, number, numerate, reckon, tale, tally; concept 764 —Ant. estimate, figure, guess