CONVEY Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

convey

verb

kən-ˈvā

Definition of convey

as in to transmit

to cause (something) to pass from one to another intends to personally convey the message to the governor

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as in to carry

to support and take from one place to another conveying a package to his grandmother for his parents

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as in to cede

to give over the legal possession or ownership of upon her death, the house will be conveyed to a predesignated charity

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expropriate

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Recent Examples of convey The focus shifts away from the sitter’s individuality and toward the richness and refinement of his attire, which undoubtedly conveys his status and pride. — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026 The hard shell then has lower forces transmitted to it, and in turn conveys lower forces to the interior soft helmet padding and then lower forces to the head. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026 Like Lanzmann, Abraham is often on camera with the film’s participants; like Lanzmann, Abraham and Szor rely on editing, connecting interviews with images of locations, to convey a sense of place. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026 Whole lives are neatly bound in tidy language, conveyed within the confines of a page or two. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for convey

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Verb

The Zorelit v5 can also be remotely controlled and transmit video over the internet.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
The great challenge of teaching is not to transmit information—machines do that cheaply now—but to engineer those moments of genuine understanding reliably enough that students come to crave them.

— Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of transmit

Verb

If the team succeeds, the result could transform a technology normally associated with large laboratory instruments into a compact quantum sensor that can be carried where the threat actually is.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
Solomon Baggett, James Lee, Ezell Jolly and Timothy Carter all took carries with Clay out of the game.

— Michael Harley, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of carry

Verb

That war of wills ended with the Emirates ceding control of Bab el-Mandeb — along with the nearby island of Perim, where the Emirates had built a drone airbase — to Saudi Arabia.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
The reality, however, appears to be that Isaacman does not want to cede any more time in this race and is thus pushing for as many cargo and crew missions as possible to the Moon as soon as possible.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of cede

Verb

Mayor Mamdani’s aides violated city rules and state law in using the disappearing Signal app to send messages to internet influencers to help them to spread word of the mayor’s achievements.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026
Extracting it economically remains difficult because uranium atoms are spread across vast volumes of water.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of spread

Verb

That behavior gives engineers a way to control how a material stores and releases electrical energy.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
Most of those steps have been blocked by various courts, in part because the Constitution gives states and Congress the authority to set election rules, but provides no such power to the president.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of give

Verb

Now a brick and mortar in the Greenwich Village for Fat Ronnie's brings the burger home.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026
The Aries Full Moon illuminates your domestic 4th house, bringing a family matter, living situation, or question of emotional security into clearer focus.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026

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