[
  {
    "word": "tell",
    "phonetic": "/t\u025bl/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/t\u025bl/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/t\u025bl/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/tell-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=711318",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "That which is told; a tale or account.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "(archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "All told, there were over a dozen.\u2003 Can you tell time on a clock?\u2003 He had untold wealth."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To narrate.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I want to tell a story;\u2003 I want to tell you a story."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To convey by speech; to say.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Finally, someone told him the truth.\u2003 He seems to like to tell lies."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To instruct or inform.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Please tell me how to do it."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To order; to direct, to say to someone.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Tell him to go away."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?\u2003 No, there's no way to tell."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To reveal.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Time will tell what became of him."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To be revealed.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I saw you steal those sweets! I'm going to tell!"
          },
          {
            "definition": "(authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "count",
          "number",
          "grass up",
          "snitch",
          "tattle",
          "narrate",
          "recount",
          "relate",
          "disclose",
          "make known",
          "advise",
          "apprise"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "ask"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
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    ]
  },
  {
    "word": "tell",
    "phonetic": "/t\u025bl/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/t\u025bl/",
        "audio": ""
      },
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        "text": "/t\u025bl/",
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          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
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  }
]