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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

Dr. Nash found out that all these particulars were of Dave's communicating.

But there are not, I presume, several ways of confessing and communicating?

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

The servant was communicating to Maurice the sad event which had just taken place.

Thereupon she called Jeanne for the purpose of communicating her impressions.

It was certainly a more satisfactory way of communicating than by letter.

Good-humor he has been communicating now for a hundred and fifty years.

She had succeeded in communicating with him through the medium of this warder.

The days passed calmly enough with Kate Wilton, and no more was said on either side about communicating with anyone.

Is prevented by his instructions from communicating his mission.

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