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com·mu·ni·cate  audio  (k-myn-kt) KEY 

VERB:
com·mu·ni·cat·ed, com·mu·ni·cat·ing, com·mu·ni·cates
VERB:
tr.
    1. To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated his views to our office.
    2. To reveal clearly; manifest: Her disapproval communicated itself in her frown.
  2. To spread (a disease, for example) to others; transmit: a carrier who communicated typhus.
VERB:
intr.
  1. To have an interchange, as of ideas.
  2. 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).
  3. Ecclesiastical To receive Communion.
  4. To be connected, one with another: apartments that communicate.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin commnicre, commnict-, from commnis, common; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots


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