com·mu·ni·cate
(kə-myōṓnĭ-kāt́)
[Latin commūnicāre, commūnicāt-, from commūnis, common.]
verb: -cat·ed, -cat·ing, -cates.
transitive verb
- To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated his views to our office.
- 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.
intransitive verb
- 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.
