communicateverb
uk/kəˈmjuː.nɪ.keɪt/us/kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪt/communicate verb (SHARE INFORMATION)
B1 [ I or T ] to share information with others by speaking, writing, moving your body, or using other signals:
We can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the world.
Unable to speak a word of the language, he communicated with (= using) his hands.
Has the news been communicated to the staff yet?
As an actor he could communicate a whole range of emotions.
B2 [ I ] to talk about your thoughts and feelings, and help other people to understand them:
I find I just can't communicate with her.
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- She went to see a clairvoyant who said he could communicate with her dead husband.
- She is that rare animal , a brilliant scientist who can communicate her ideas to ordinary people.
- Having knowledge is one thing but being able to communicate it to others is another kettle of fish.
- His skill lies in his ability to communicate quite complex ideas very simply.
- Coming up after the break, we have a man who claims he can communicate with fish.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Communicating & keeping in touch
- ahold
- bell
- catch up
- communication
- communicative
- give sb a bell idiom
- hear
- interact
- interaction
- pick
- pick up the phone idiom
- radio silence
- raise
- rapporteur
- reach out to sb
- ring (sb) back
- send
- send word idiom
- signal
- touch
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Empathy and sensitivity
communicate verb (DISEASE)
[ T ] specialized medical to pass a disease from one person or animal to another
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Passing on illness & causing disease
- carrier
- carry
- catch
- contagious
- epidemic
- incubate
- infect
- infected
- infest
- insalubrious
- mediastinum
- non-communicable
- prophylactic
- transmission
- transmit
- unhygienic
- vector
- verminous
- virulence
- virulent
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communicate verb (ROOMS)
[ I ] formal If one room communicates with another, it connects with it through a door:
The bedroom communicates with both bathroom and hall.
communicating rooms
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Connecting and combining
- abut
- adjoin
- aggregate
- allied
- amalgamate
- assemblage
- bind
- desegregate
- dovetail
- eclectic
- entwine
- fuse
- fusion
- hitch
- linkage
- lump sb/sth together
- marriage
- marry
- meld
- merge
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