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Verb

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To function as a liability (for someone); to put into a condition of disadvantage.
  2. (transitive, idiomatic) To serve as evidence which casts doubt upon.

Exempel

  • [S]ome people . . . have been so short-sighted and reckless as to clamor for an easy dissolution of the marriage-contract. . . . Is it possible that they do not see that this is a liberty which, once granted, would always tell against the weaker sex?
  • Ernest's want of muscular strength did not tell against him here.
  • [H]ard as he worked, his age was beginning to tell against him.
  • She knew he was disposed to catch at anything that seemed to tell against Godwin's claims.
  • "Such a fact must tell against the theory."
  • [T]he comma tells against this reading.

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