tell%20on

verb

  1. 1

    (usually childish) To inform on, to rat out; to tell a person in authority that someone else has done something wrong.

    My sister told on me when I didn't go to school.
  2. 2

    To cause visible strain to.

    Years of drinking started to tell on his body.

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