participate
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Is participate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).Examples: "For the second year, foreign amateur runners were allowed to participate in a 10-kilometer race, a half-marathon or a full marathon in Pyongyang, the capital. The races were a part of the April 15 birthday celebration of Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea and father of his successors: Kim Jong-il, a son, and Kim Jong-un, a grandson."intransitive
2. (obsolete, transitive) To share, to take part in (something).Examples: "A spirit I am indeed; But am in that dimension grossly clad Which from the womb I did participate."; "[The Persees] are tollerated all sorts of meat; but (in obedience to the Mahomitan and Bannyan ’mongst whom they live) refraine Beefe and Hog flesh: they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup […]."; "[H]e is less likely there to find companions who understand him, and can participate his pleasure: for the French ladies in general have, I believe, very little notion of that species of delight that arises from contemplating the simple beauties of nature."obsoletetransitive
3. (obsolete) To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others.Examples: "1661, Thomas Salusbury, Galilaeus Galilaeus Lyncaeus, His Systeme of the World, Second Dialogue, in Mathematical Collections and Translations, London, p. 105, Make the Earth […] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star, all shall have their risings, settings, and in a word, all their other appearances."obsolete
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Acting in common; participating.Examples: "And, mutually participate, did minister Unto the appetite and affection common Of the whole body."not-comparableobsolete
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