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com·mu·ni·cate

Audio Help [kuh-myoo-ni-keyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -cat·ed, -cat·ing.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.

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)

5.	to give or interchange thoughts, feelings, information, or the like, by writing, speaking, etc.: They communicate with each other every day.

6.	to express thoughts, feelings, or information easily or effectively.

7.	to be joined or connected: The rooms communicated by means of a hallway.

8.	to partake of the Eucharist.

9.	Obsolete. to take part or participate.

[Origin: 1520–30; < L commūnicātus, ptp. of commūnicāre to impart, make common, equiv. to commūn(is) common + -icāre v. suffix

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—Synonyms 1. divulge, announce, disclose, reveal. 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.

—Antonyms 1. withhold, conceal.

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com·mu·ni·cate Audio Help   (kə-myōō'nĭ-kāt') Pronunciation Key
v.   com·mu·ni·cat·ed, com·mu·ni·cat·ing, com·mu·ni·cates

v.   tr.

1. To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated his views to our office.
2. To reveal clearly; manifest: Her disapproval communicated itself in her frown.
To spread (a disease, for example) to others; transmit: a carrier who communicated typhus.

v. intr.

To have an interchange, as of ideas.
To express oneself in such a way that one is readily and clearly understood: "That ability to communicate was strange in a man given to long, awkward silences" (Anthony Lewis).
Ecclesiastical To receive Communion.
To be connected, one with another: apartments that communicate.