Betell

Quick meaning: Betell is a verb meaning (transitive) To speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe.

Meaning

(transitive) To speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To speak for; answer for; justify.
2. (transitive) To lay claim to; win; rescue.
3. (transitive, rare) To talk about negatively; slander; calumniate; deride; deceive.

Example Sentences

Occasionally we do see some short-line road whose track and equipment are kept in such good repair as to betell of exceptional prosperity; […]

Sid's face disappeared and one of his cursed Gods was glaring instead, through gouged-out sockets that betold of his having loved that which was denied him, a law that not even legends could do away with.

The air pooled in stillness because the winds had died and would never breathe again, and the silence betold a world of solid stone, where the planetary core had gone cold, where no rivers ran and seas no longer stirred with tides, […]

Word Forms

• betells
• betelling
• betold

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tell, narrate, read, deliver, betalk, story.

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