Word Meanings - RELATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy

Additional info about word: RELATE

1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy heart relate. Shak. 4. To ally by connection or kindred. To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words. Syn. -- To tell; recite; narrate; recount; rehearse; report; detail; describe.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RELATE)

• Describe
• Draw
• delineate
• portray
• explain
• illustrate
• define
• picture
• depict
• represent
• relate
• narrate
• recount
• Narrate
• recite
• tell
• report
• detail
• rehearse
• Refer
• Attribute
• associate
• assign
• advert
• connect
• point
• belong
• allude
• apply
• appeal
• Rehearse
• Repeat
• recapitulate
• Reiterate
• iterate
• renew
• cite
• quote
• reproduce

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RELATE)

• Divorce
• disconnect
• dissociate
• dissever
• Generalize
• condense
• conglomerate
• gather
• sketch
• suggest abstract
• classify
• amalgamate
• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify

Related words: (words related to RELATE)

• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• APPEALER
  One who makes an appeal.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• REFER
  1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
• REITERATE
  To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. Shak. Syn.
• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.
• DISSOCIATE
  To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward. (more info)
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• ILLITERATE
  Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people. Syn. -- Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary. See Ignorant. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ness, n.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither