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
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All four are expected to be able to intercommunicate.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2018
What an immeasurable profit it would be for the human race if we were able to intercommunicate by means of one language.
From Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education by Richard Bartholdt
You may intercommunicate all that you wish at a distance of four or five thousands leagues in less than half an hour.
From Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro
These marshes are threaded, cobweb fashion, by myriads of lines of water and mud that intercommunicate.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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 Talbot Mundy
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
The pilot-captain talks with his crew over the intercommunicating phone.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Philadelphia in 1902 he set himself up as a maker of batteries, battery testers and intercommunicating telephone systems.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the intercommunicating road for nine of the thirty-five counties of the State, and passes through the county seats of all but one of the nine.
From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson
The method of operation of the push-button key employed in the intercommunicating system of the Western Electric Company is well shown in Fig.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Samuel McMeen
In the morning I learned that there were three intercommunicating wards.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney
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