Retold vs Betold - What's the difference?
retold | betold |
(retell)
To tell again, to paraphrase, to tell something one has read or heard.
(betell)
To speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe.
*1938 , Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal :
*2001 , Donna Morrissey, Kit's Law: A Novel :
*2009 , Dean R. Koontz, Odd Hours :
To speak for; answer for; justify.
To lay claim to; win; rescue.
(rare) To talk about negatively; slander; calumniate; deride; deceive.
As verbs the difference between retold and betold
is that retold is past tense of retell while betold is past tense of betell.retold
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*retell
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*betold
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- 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, [...]
