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Verb: relate  ri'leyt
  1. Make a logical or causal connection
    "I cannot relate these events at all";
    - associate, tie in, link, colligate, link up, connect
     
  2. Be relevant to
    "There were lots of questions relating to her talk";
    - refer, pertain, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have to do with
     
  3. Give an account of; narrate
    "The witness related the events"
     
  4. Be in a relationship with
    "How are these two observations related?";
    - interrelate
     
  5. Interact with and have or form some kind of relationship
    "She relates well to her peers"

Derived forms: relating, relates, related

Type of: be, cerebrate, cogitate, interact, narrate, recite, recount, retail[2], tell, think

Encyclopedia: Relate