Entry Word: communicate

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to cause (something) to pass from one to another <the infected cook unknowingly communicated the disease to hundreds of people>

Synonyms convey, impart, spread, transfer, transfuse, transmit

Related Words deliver, hand over, surrender, turn over; broadcast, diffuse, disseminate, propagate; contaminate, infect, poison

Near Antonyms catch, come down (with), contract

2 to engage in an exchange of information or ideas <for decades the two medical centers have been communicating about cancer research>

Synonyms brainstorm, intercommunicate

Related Words correspond; converse, talk; bond, commune, relate; accost, approach, contact