Word Study
tell off
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb tell off has 1 sense
- tell off(v = verb.communication) brush down - reprimand; "She told the misbehaving student off" is one way to bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
THESAURUS
tell off
bawl out, berate, call down, chew out, come down on, denounce, dress down, give it to, jaw, jump all over, jump on, rail, revile, speak to, talk to, tongue-lash, trim, upbraid, vituperateROGET THESAURUS
tell off
Numeration
VB number, count, tally, tell, call over, run over, take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate, sum, sum up, cast up, tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots, algebraize, check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock, affix numbers to, page, amount to, add up to, come to.
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