Screen
Screen verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
Tell
Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The only way to tell if you are dying is how much blood was on your screen, how grey your screen was, and how hard you were breathing in game.
Source: Fackler Scale of FPS Realism - When, in the final book, he does tell it to an unsuspecting individual, it happens off-screen.
Source: Noodle Incident / Literature -
The Strangerhood: Every time Wade wants to tell a story, the screen goes wavy and leads into a flashback.
Source: Flashback Effects
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