Usually means: Reported someone's actions to authority.
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  1. tattled: Merriam-Webster
  2. tattled: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. tattled: Wordnik
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  7. Tattled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Tattled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. tattled: FreeDictionary.org
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(Note: See tattle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tattle)

verb:  (intransitive) To chatter; to gossip.
verb:  (intransitive, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing, usually to a person in a position of authority over the accused person; to tell on somebody.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.
noun:  (countable) A tattletale.
noun:  (countable, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
noun:  (uncountable) Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip.
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