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Communicate

To share in common; to participate in.

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Commune 84% connected

To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.

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Commune 84% connected

To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.

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Manner of action 58

Acknowledge 76% connected

To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

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Address 76% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Aphorize 76% connected

To make aphorisms.

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Ask 76% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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Bespeak 76% connected

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Commune 76% connected

To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.

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Contact 76% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Convey 76% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Deliver 76% connected

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…

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Enquire 76% connected

See Inquire.

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Gab 76% connected

The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.

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Gesticulate 76% connected

To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.

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Gesture 76% connected

Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Greet 76% connected

Great.

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Grimace 76% connected

A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobatio…

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Implant 76% connected

To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the princ…

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Impose 76% connected

To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.

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Inflict 76% connected

To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to…

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Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Inquire 76% connected

To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.

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Issue 76% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Jest 76% connected

A deed; an action; a gest.

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Joke 76% connected

Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a wit…

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Message 76% connected

Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Mouth 76% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Network 76% connected

A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes…

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Nod 76% connected

To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Plant 76% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Project 76% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Quest 76% connected

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Receipt 76% connected

The act of receiving; reception.

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Relay 76% connected

To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Request 76% connected

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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Return 76% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Riddle 76% connected

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…

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Semaphore 76% connected

A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.

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Share 76% connected

The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

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Sign 76% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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Signal 76% connected

A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agr…

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Signalize 76% connected

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

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Speak 76% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Utter 76% connected

Outer.

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Verbalize 76% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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Visit 76% connected

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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Whistle 76% connected

To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a s…

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Write 76% connected

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the charact…

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Yak 76% connected

A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered wit…

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Convey 76% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Covenant 76% connected

A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.

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Interact 76% connected

A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.

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Intercommunicate 76% connected

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Transmit 76% connected

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…

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Derivationally related 18

Communication 74% connected

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Communication 74% connected

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Communicative 74% connected

Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.

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Communicative 74% connected

Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.

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Communicatory 74% connected

Imparting knowledge or information.

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Communicatory 74% connected

Imparting knowledge or information.

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Transmissible 74% connected

Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.

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Transmissible 74% connected

Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.

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Transmission 74% connected

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country t…

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Transmission 74% connected

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country t…

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Vector 74% connected

Same as Radius vector.

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Vector 74% connected

Same as Radius vector.

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Synonym 5

Commune 92% connected

To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.

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Convey 92% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Intercommunicate 92% connected

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

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Pass 92% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Transmit 92% connected

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…

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Antonym 2

Unchurch 94% connected

To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.

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Unchurch 94% connected

To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.

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