intercommunicate
Americanverb (used without object)
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to communicate mutually, as people.
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to afford passage from one to another, as rooms.
verb (used with object)
verb
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to communicate mutually
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to interconnect, as two rooms
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of intercommunicate
First recorded in 1580–90, intercommunicate is from the Medieval Latin word intercommūnicātus (past participle). See inter-, communicate
Example Sentences
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All four are expected to be able to intercommunicate.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2018
The cells intercommunicate, and the mechanical mixture of the gases arising from the furnace grates of the various cells is sought by the introduction of a special design of reverberatory arch overlying the grates.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
They are filled with fluid and intercommunicate freely, finally connecting with a number of fine tubes, the lymphatics, through which excess of fluid or any solid particles present are drained away.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
These marshes are threaded, cobweb fashion, by myriads of lines of water and mud that intercommunicate.
From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
He had scarcely left the deck, however, before the boat came riding by on the buoyant waves, both parties having been deceived as to the distance, by their inability to intercommunicate.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II by Caruthers, William A. (Alexander)
Then they intercommunicated thought, sentiment, and emotion with one another as God had communicated to them.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
As nearly all ships' cabins on those hot routes do, ours intercommunicated by a metal grill for ventilating purposes, and a word spoken in one cabin above a whisper could be heard in the next.
From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot
In Philadelphia in 1902 he set himself up as a maker of batteries, battery testers and intercommunicating telephone systems.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pilot-captain talks with his crew over the intercommunicating phone.
From Time Magazine Archive
These intercommunicating tracts were always kept lighted, and the expense thereof defrayed by a special tax, to which all the communities comprehended in the denomination of Vril-ya contribute in settled proportions.
From The Coming Race by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Out between them boiled a little torrent, and spread into a hundred intercommunicating channels amidst the great pebbles.
From The Passionate Friends by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Other physiologists attribute the result to the close attachment and freely intercommunicating blood-vessels between the modified embryo and mother.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles
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