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communicate

[ kuh-myoo-ni-keyt ]

verb (used with object)

communicated, communicating.
  1. to impart knowledge of; make known:

    to communicate information;

    to communicate one's happiness.

    Synonyms: , , ,

    Antonyms: ,

  2. to give to another; impart; transmit:

    to communicate a disease.

  3. to administer the Eucharist to.
  4. Archaic. to share in or partake of.


verb (used without object)

communicated, communicating.
  1. to give or interchange thoughts, feelings, information, or the like, by writing, speaking, etc.:

    They communicate with each other every day.

  2. to express thoughts, feelings, or information easily or effectively.
  3. to be joined or connected:

    The rooms communicated by means of a hallway.

  4. to partake of the Eucharist.
  5. Obsolete. to take part or participate.

communicate

/ əˈːɪˌɪ /

verb

  1. to impart (knowledge) or exchange (thoughts, feelings, or ideas) by speech, writing, gestures, etc
  2. trusually foll byto to allow (a feeling, emotion, etc) to be sensed (by), willingly or unwillingly; transmit (to)

    the dog communicated his fear to the other animals

  3. intr to have a sympathetic mutual understanding
  4. intrusually foll bywith to make or have a connecting passage or route; connect
  5. tr to transmit (a disease); infect
  6. intr Christianity to receive or administer Communion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • dzˈܲԾٴǰ, adjective
  • dzˈܲԾˌٴǰ, noun
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  • v·dz·n·ٱ verb overcommunicated overcommunicating
  • cdz·n·ٱ verb precommunicated precommunicating
  • ܲcdz·n·iԲ adjective
  • ɱ-dz·n·e adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of communicate1

First recorded in 1520–30; from Latin dzūԾٳܲ “imparted,” past participle of dzūԾ “to impart, make common,” equivalent to dzū() common + -, verb suffix
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of communicate1

C16: from Latin dzūԾ to share, from dzūԾ common
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Synonym Study

Communicate, impart denote giving to a person or thing a part or share of something, now usually something immaterial, as knowledge, thoughts, hopes, qualities, or properties. Communicate, the more common word, implies often an indirect or gradual transmission: to communicate information by means of letters, telegrams, etc.; to communicate one's wishes to someone else. Impart usually implies directness of action: to impart information.
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Example Sentences

P now suffers from severe dystonic cerebral palsy, is effectively blind, has an intellectual disability, has epilepsy, can only communicate by crying and cannot be comforted when crying.

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Satellites in orbit communicate down to ground stations using radio signals regulated by the Federal Communication Commission.

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Hezbollah had decided to equip members with low-tech pagers for communicating rather than smartphones which it feared could be used by Israel, its arch-enemy, to gather sensitive information about the group.

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The procedures forced him to use a voice box to speak, and in the 2022 film, he types on a screen to communicate with Cruise's character.

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“We are notoriously poor at estimating risk and communicating relative and absolute risk,” Harvard epidemiologist David Hunter told me in 2013 for my first report on 23andMe.

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