inform on

See also: informon

English

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• finger, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out

Translations

to act as an informant against — see also inform

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: angi, tyste på

• Polish: donosić (pl) impf, donieść (pl) pf (+ na)
• Russian: доноси́ть (ru) impf (donosítʹ), донести́ (ru) pf (donestí) (+ на)
• Ukrainian: доно́сити impf (donósyty), донести́ pf (donestý) (+ на)