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Betells vs Retells - What's the difference?

betells | retells |

As verbs the difference between betells and retells

is that betells is (betell) while retells is (retell).

betells

English

Verb

(head)
  • (betell)

  • betell

    English

    Verb

  • To speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe.
  • *1938 , Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal :
  • Occasionally we do see some short-line road whose track and equipment are kept in such good repair as to betell of exceptional prosperity; [...]
  • *2001 , Donna Morrissey, Kit's Law: A Novel :
  • 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.
  • *2009 , Dean R. Koontz, Odd Hours :
  • 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, [...]
  • To speak for; answer for; justify.
  • To lay claim to; win; rescue.
  • (rare) To talk about negatively; slander; calumniate; deride; deceive.
  • retells

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (retell)
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    retell

    English

    Verb

  • To tell again, to paraphrase, to tell something one has read or heard.
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