communicate, pass_on, pass, put_across: transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees" communicate, intercommunicate: transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" convey, transmit, communicate: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" communicate: join or connect; "The rooms communicated" communicate: be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?" communicate: administer communion; in church commune, communicate: receive Communion, in the Catholic church