inform on

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inform on (third-person singular simple present informs on, present participle informing on, simple past and past participle informed on)

  1. To tell on someone; to act as an informant against.
    • 2013 May 24, Emily Parker, “Bulgakov's Ghost”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 2022-05-12:
      In 1983, one of his friends informed on him for reading a forbidden book, and he lost his teaching job.

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