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correspondcorrespond /ˌkɔrəˈspɑnd, ˌkɑr-/ ●○○ AWL verb [intransitive] ETYMOLOGYcorrespondOrigin: 1500-1600 French correspondre, from Medieval Latin, from Latin VERB TABLEcorrespond |
Present | I, you, we, they | correspond | | he, she, it | corresponds | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | corresponded | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have corresponded | | he, she, it | has corresponded | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had corresponded | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will correspond | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have corresponded |
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Present | I | am corresponding | | he, she, it | is corresponding | | you, we, they | are corresponding | Past | I, he, she, it | was corresponding | | you, we, they | were corresponding | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been corresponding | | he, she, it | has been corresponding | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been corresponding | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be corresponding | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been corresponding |
THESAURUSexchange information► communicate to exchange information or conversation with other people, using words, signs, letters, etc.: We mostly communicate by email. ► get in touch with to telephone or write to someone: I’ve recently gotten in touch with some old friends on Facebook. ► contact to telephone or write to someone, especially for the first time. Contact is more formal than get in touch with: The company contacted him by email and invited him to a job interview. ► get a hold of informal to succeed in contacting someone, especially on the telephone: I kept trying to get a hold of Linda, but she wasn’t answering her phone. ► reach to succeed in contacting someone by telephone: Is this the number I should use to reach you? ► correspond formal if two people correspond with each other, they write letters to each other: My grandmother and I used to correspond regularly, but I hardly write letters anymore. 1if two things or ideas correspond, the parts or information in one relate to the parts or information in the other: correspond to/with The numbers correspond to points on the map.2to be very similar or the same as something else: These two accounts of what happened do not seem to correspond.correspond to Is there a word in English that corresponds to the Russian word “toska”?3if two people correspond, they write letters to each other: For the next three years they corresponded regularly.correspond with He hasn’t seen or corresponded with his children in six years.► see thesaurus at communicate [Origin: 1500–1600 French correspondre, from Medieval Latin, from Latin] |