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communicate

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To share in common; to participate in.

To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.

To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.

To administer the communion to.

To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.

To give alms, sympathy, or aid.

To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.

To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated. Martin Luther King Jr.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Germaine Greer

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication. Marshall McLuhan

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. Joseph Priestley

Communicate more with yourself than you do with others. Danish Proverb

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