Rang the bell audibly and gave the news (4)
I believe the answer is:
told
'rang the bell' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'audibly and gave the news' is the wordplay.
'audibly' shows a homophone (sound like).
'and' becomes 'too'.
'gave the news' becomes 'ld' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'too' is a homophone of 'to'.
'to'+'ld'='TOLD'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for told that I've seen before include "Assured" , "Made an impact" , "instructed" , "Produced effect; related" , "Informed; narrated" .)