Meaning of betell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe.
   transitive
2. To speak for; answer for; justify.
   transitive
3. To lay claim to; win; rescue.
   transitive
4. To talk about negatively; slander; calumniate; deride; deceive.
   rare, transitive

Examples

“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, […]”

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