v.
1 make known, impart, confer, transmit, transfer, hand on or down, share, pass on or along, send on, spread; tell, divulge, disclose, reveal, announce, transmit, promulgate, proffer, tender, offer, convey, deliver, present, give, yield, supply:
Moral qualities are sometimes thought to be communicated by descent. I communicated to them the information that I had about the missiles.
2 Also, communicate with. be in communication (with), converse (with), talk (with), chat (with); correspond (with); associate (with), be in contact or touch (with), reach:
Donald and I haven't communicated in years. Instead of communicating with him by telephone, she did so via personal notices in the newspaper.
3 get or put across, make understandable; get through to, reach, be of one mind, be in tune, relate, be in or en rapport, make oneself understood, Slang be or vibrate on the same frequency or wavelength:
He has difficulty in communicating his ideas to his students. We might talk, but are we communicating?
verb
ADV.
clearly, effectively, successfully, well | directly | easily | verbally
By the age of two most children have begun to communicate verbally.
| electronically
PREP.
by
We usually communicate by letter.
| through
We communicated through an interpreter.
| to
She is unable to communicate her ideas to other people.
| with
couples who communicate well with one another
Random quote: The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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