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detail
verb. specify, make clear
  • analyze
  • catalog
  • circumstantiate
  • communicate
  • delineate
  • depict
  • describe
  • designate
  • elaborate
  • embellish
  • enumerate
  • epitomize
  • exhibit
  • fly speck
  • get down to brass tacks
  • individualize
  • itemize
  • lay out
  • narrate
  • particularize
  • portray
  • produce
  • quote chapter and verse
  • recapitulate
  • recite
  • recount
  • rehearse
  • relate
  • report
  • reveal
  • set forth
  • show
  • specialize
  • spell out
  • spread
  • stipulate
  • summarize
  • sweat details
  • tell
  • uncover

disclose
verb. reveal, make public
  • acknowledge
  • admit
  • avow
  • bare
  • betray
  • blab
  • bring to light
  • broadcast
  • come out of the closet
  • communicate
  • confess
  • discover
  • display
  • divulge
  • exhibit
  • expose
  • give away
  • impart
  • lay bare
  • leak
  • let slip
  • make known
  • mouth
  • open
  • own
  • publish
  • relate
  • reveal
  • show
  • snitch
  • spill
  • spill the beans
  • squeal
  • tell
  • uncover
  • unfurl
  • unveil
  • utter

divulge
verb. make known; confess
  • admit
  • betray
  • blab
  • blow the whistle
  • broadcast
  • communicate
  • cough up
  • declare
  • disclose
  • discover
  • exhibit
  • expose
  • fess up
  • give away
  • go public
  • gossip
  • impart
  • leak
  • let hair down
  • let slip
  • mouth
  • open up
  • own up
  • proclaim
  • promulgate
  • publish
  • reveal
  • spill
  • spill the beans
  • spring
  • tattle
  • tell
  • tip off
  • uncover

express
verb. articulate; signify, mean
  • add up to
  • air
  • assert
  • asseverate
  • bespeak
  • broach
  • circulate
  • communicate
  • connote
  • convey
  • couch
  • declare
  • denote
  • depict
  • designate
  • disclose
  • divulge
  • embody
  • enunciate
  • evince
  • exhibit
  • formulate
  • frame
  • give
  • hint
  • import
  • indicate
  • insinuate
  • intend
  • intimate
  • make known
  • manifest
  • phrase
  • pop off
  • proclaim
  • pronounce
  • put
  • put across
  • put into words
  • represent
  • reveal
  • say
  • show
  • speak
  • spell
  • stand for
  • state
  • suggest
  • symbolize
  • tell
  • testify
  • utter
  • vent
  • ventilate
  • verbalize
  • voice
  • word

impart
verb. make known
  • admit
  • announce
  • break
  • communicate
  • convey
  • disclose
  • discover
  • divulge
  • expose
  • inform
  • pass on
  • publish
  • relate
  • reveal
  • tell
  • transmit

inculcate
verb. implant, infuse information
  • brainwash
  • break down
  • communicate
  • drill
  • drum into
  • educate
  • hammer into
  • impart
  • impress
  • indoctrinate
  • inseminate
  • instill
  • instruct
  • plant
  • program
  • shape up
  • teach
  • work over

intimate
verb. suggest; tip off
  • affirm
  • air
  • allude
  • announce
  • assert
  • aver
  • avouch
  • communicate
  • connote
  • declare
  • drop a hint
  • expose
  • express
  • hint
  • impart
  • imply
  • indicate
  • infer
  • insinuate
  • leak
  • let cat out of bag
  • let it be known
  • make known
  • make noise
  • profess
  • remind
  • spill the beans
  • spring
  • state
  • utter
  • vent
  • voice
  • warn

join
verb. touch; border on
  • abut
  • adjoin
  • be adjacent to
  • be at hand
  • be close to
  • be contiguous to
  • bound
  • butt
  • communicate
  • conjoin
  • extend
  • fringe
  • hem
  • lie beside
  • lie near
  • lie next to
  • line
  • march
  • meet
  • neighbor
  • open into
  • parallel
  • reach
  • rim
  • skirt
  • trench on
  • verge on

line
verb. border, mark
  • abut
  • adjoin
  • align
  • allineate
  • array
  • bound
  • butt against
  • communicate
  • crease
  • cut
  • delineate
  • draw
  • edge
  • fix
  • follow
  • fringe
  • furrow
  • group
  • inscribe
  • join
  • line up
  • march
  • marshal
  • neighbor
  • order
  • ordinate
  • outline
  • place
  • queue
  • range
  • rank
  • rim
  • rule
  • score
  • skirt
  • touch
  • trace
  • underline
  • verge
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Word Origin & History

communicate 1520s, "to impart" (information, etc.), from L. communicat-, pp. stem of communicare (see communication). Meaning "to share, transmit" (diseases, etc.) is from 1530s. Related: communicated (pp. adj., 1680s); communicating (1550s).

Example Sentences for communicating

It is the manner of communicating these diseases; it is the subtle way in which they go about.

Michaud, in communicating the news to them, did not conceal his delight.

While he was there, Columbus, who had no means of communicating with him, sailed from Palos.

He did so, communicating to me the particulars of the conversation.

God is desirous of communicating Himself to us in a Personal manner.

You shall have no opportunity of communicating with your friends.

I have some friends, however, in that country, and I will see about communicating with them.

I also had in my mind the fact that there is a method of communicating figures by time-coding.

I made no difficulty in communicating to him what had interested me most in this affair.

What need of this roundabout, mysterious mode of communicating?

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