interrelate

verb

in·​ter·​re·​late ˌin-tər-ri-ˈlāt How to pronounce interrelate (audio)
ˌin-tə-
interrelated; interrelating; interrelates

transitive verb

: to bring into mutual relation

intransitive verb

: to have mutual relationship
interrelation noun
interrelationship noun

Examples of interrelate in a Sentence

I like the way the characters interrelate in the novel. Linguists have found that language interrelates closely with culture. Linguists have tried to interrelate language with culture.
Recent Examples on the Web But doing so is tricky because these attributes are interrelated, and after a certain point improving one has a negative impact on others. IEEE Spectrum, 18 Jan. 2024 Energy and water are interrelated: Energy is used to produce, heat, move, and treat water. Sheril Kirshenbaum, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2010 If anything, they are interrelated, as wars are complex events; the decline of U.S. hegemony contributes to growing multipolarity; and great-power competition has surely fed Russia’s aggression and the West’s response. Paul Poast, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2023 In them, as in Cortázar’s story, the city is a capricious force where citizens meet, clash, and interrelate in ways that disturb class divisions. Julia Kornberg, The New York Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2023 Cognitive research has shown that writing helps people build connections between concepts, boosts insight and understanding, and improves memory and recall across a variety of topics, says Kathleen Arnold, a psychologist at Radford University, who studies how writing and learning are interrelated. Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2023 By studying how the classical and quantum worlds interrelate, Oppenheim hopes to find a deeper theory that is neither quantum nor classical, but some kind of hybrid. Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2023 Contemporary challenges to human development are interrelated: climate change may lead to food shortages, trigger mass migration, and incite resource wars. Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2021 The goal is to understand how these data points interrelate and determine the diseases to which each individual might be most prone. Jonathan Moens, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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The first known use of interrelate was in 1888

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“Interrelate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interrelate. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

interrelate

verb
in·​ter·​re·​late ˌint-ə(r)-ri-ˈlāt How to pronounce interrelate (audio)
: to bring into or have a shared relationship
interrelation noun
interrelationship noun
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