MEANING
To communicate with one another, or to provide a connection through which adjoining spaces communicate.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- intercommunicating rooms
- rooms that intercommunicate
On the page
The rooms intercommunicated through a narrow doorway behind the screens.
Separate offices could intercommunicate without using the public corridor.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- intercommunicate
- Past tense
- intercommunicated
- Past participle
- intercommunicated
- Present participle
- intercommunicating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- intercommunicate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are intercommunicating
- Present perfect
- have/has intercommunicated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been intercommunicating
- Past
- intercommunicated
- Past continuous
- was/were intercommunicating
- Past perfect
- had intercommunicated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been intercommunicating
- Future
- will intercommunicate
- Future continuous
- will be intercommunicating
- Future perfect
- will have intercommunicated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been intercommunicating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Forms: intercommunicate; intercommunicates; intercommunicated; intercommunicated; intercommunicating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: intercommunicates.
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