| inform | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| ~ wise up | cause someone to become aware of something. |
| ~ communicate, intercommunicate | transmit thoughts or feelings.; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" |
| ~ instruct, teach, learn | impart skills or knowledge to.; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" |
| ~ apprise, apprize, instruct | make aware of.; "Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?" |
| ~ inoculate | introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of.; "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs" |
| ~ acquaint | inform.; "Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to move" |
| ~ warn | notify, usually in advance.; "I warned you that I would ask some difficult questions" |
| ~ inform | act as an informer.; "She had informed on her own parents for years" |
| ~ fill in | supply with information on a specific topic.; "He filled me in on the latest developments" |
| ~ update | bring up to date; supply with recent information. |
| ~ misinform, mislead | give false or misleading information to. |
| ~ downplay, minimise, understate, minimize | represent as less significant or important. |
| ~ shit, tell on, snitch, stag, denounce, give away, shop, betray, grass, rat | give away information about somebody.; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" |
| ~ undeceive | free from deception or illusion. |
| ~ warn | notify of danger, potential harm, or risk.; "The director warned him that he might be fired"; "The doctor warned me about the dangers of smoking" |
| ~ apprise, apprize, notify, send word, advise, give notice | inform (somebody) of something.; "I advised him that the rent was due" |
| ~ familiarise, familiarize, acquaint | make familiar or conversant with.; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings" |
| ~ cue, remind, prompt | assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned. |
| ~ volunteer | tell voluntarily.; "He volunteered the information" |
| ~ acquaint, introduce, present | cause to come to know personally.; "permit me to acquaint you with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the community" |
| ~ regret | express with regret.; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard" |
| ~ point, indicate, designate, show | indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively.; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents" |
| ~ indicate | to state or express briefly.; "indicated his wishes in a letter" |
| ~ suggest, indicate | suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine.; "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases" |
| ~ nark | inform or spy (for the police). |
| ~ explain, explicate | make plain and comprehensible.; "He explained the laws of physics to his students" |
| ~ tell | let something be known.; "Tell them that you will be late" |
| ~ recount, narrate, tell, recite | narrate or give a detailed account of.; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" |
| ~ narrate | provide commentary for a film, for example. |
| ~ report, describe, account | to give an account or representation of in words.; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental" |
| ~ report | make known to the authorities.; "One student reported the other to the principal" |
| ~ report, cover | be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism.; "Snow reported on China in the 1950's"; "The cub reporter covered New York City" |
| ~ announce, denote | make known; make an announcement.; "She denoted her feelings clearly" |
| ~ disabuse | free somebody (from an erroneous belief). |
| ~ remonstrate, point out | present and urge reasons in opposition. |
| ~ bear witness, evidence, testify, prove, show | provide evidence for.; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence" |
| v. (change) | 2. inform | give character or essence to.; "The principles that inform modern teaching" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (communication) | 3. inform | act as an informer.; "She had informed on her own parents for years" |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| ~ evidence, tell | give evidence.; "he was telling on all his former colleague" |
| know | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. know | the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people.; "he is always in the know" |
| ~ knowing | a clear and certain mental apprehension. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. cognise, cognize, know | be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about.; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" |
| ~ keep track | keep informed of fully aware.; "I keep track of the stock market developments" |
| ~ know | be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt.; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun" |
| ~ agnise, agnize, realize, recognize, realise, recognise | be fully aware or cognizant of. |
| v. (cognition) | 3. know | know how to do or perform something.; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?" |
| ~ be on the ball, be with it, know the score, know what's going on, know what's what | be well-informed. |
| ~ master, control | have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of.; "Do you control these data?" |
| ~ get the hang, master | be or become completely proficient or skilled in.; "She mastered Japanese in less than two years" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. know | be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt.; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun" |
| ~ cognise, cognize, know | be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about.; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" |
| ~ foreknow, foresee, previse, anticipate | realize beforehand. |
| v. (cognition) | 5. know | be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object.; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily" |
| ~ know | perceive as familiar.; "I know this voice!" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. experience, know, live | have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" |
| ~ taste | experience briefly.; "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died" |
| ~ live over, relive | experience again, often in the imagination.; "He relived the horrors of war" |
| ~ experience, go through, see | go or live through.; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. acknowledge, know, recognise, recognize | accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority.; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods" |
| ~ accept | consider or hold as true.; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. know | have fixed in the mind.; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?" |
| ~ have down | have (something) mastered.; "She has the names of the fifty states down pat" |
| v. (contact) | 9. bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with | have sexual intercourse with.; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" |
| ~ neck, make out | kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion.; "The couple were necking in the back seat of the car" |
| ~ have, take | have sex with; archaic use.; "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable" |
| ~ fornicate | have sex without being married. |
| ~ copulate, mate, couple, pair | engage in sexual intercourse.; "Birds mate in the Spring" |
| v. (cognition) | 10. know | know the nature or character of.; "we all knew her as a big show-off" |
| ~ agnise, agnize, realize, recognize, realise, recognise | be fully aware or cognizant of. |
| v. (cognition) | 11. know | be able to distinguish, recognize as being different.; "The child knows right from wrong" |
| ~ differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, separate, tell | mark as different.; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" |
| v. (cognition) | 12. know | perceive as familiar.; "I know this voice!" |
| ~ know | be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object.; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily" |
| ~ recall, recollect, remember, call back, call up, retrieve, think | recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" |
| transpire | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. transpirate, transpire | pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas. |
| ~ flow, flux | move or progress freely as if in a stream.; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium" |
| v. (change) | 2. transpire | exude water vapor.; "plants transpire" |
| ~ evaporate, vaporize, vaporise | lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue.; "evaporate milk" |
| v. (change) | 3. transpire | come to light; become known.; "It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (change) | 4. transpire | come about, happen, or occur.; "Several important events transpired last week" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| v. (body) | 5. transpire | give off (water) through the skin. |
| ~ exudate, exude, ooze out, transude, ooze | release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities.; "exude sweat through the pores" |
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