participate
Other forms: participated; participating; participates
If you take part in an activity or organization, you participate in it. For example, you participate in a conversation by listening to and talking with others, or you participate in a sport by joining a team and taking part in practices and games.
You can use the verb participate to mean "be involved in" or "share in." Sometimes it is easy to figure out who participates in something — the runners in a race, the people waiting their turn to audition for a part in a play. Sometimes it isn't so obvious. If two students cause trouble but the teacher punishes the whole class, it might be that in not stopping the troublemakers, she views everyone as having participated — just being there means they were involved.
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become a participant; be involved in
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synonyms:
enter
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antonyms:
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chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, quit, throw in, throw in the towel
give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
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types:
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jump
enter eagerly into
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chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, quit, throw in, throw in the towel
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share in something
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synonyms:
take part
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types:
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partake in
be active in
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partake in
/pɑrˌtɪsɪˈpeɪt/
/pɑˈtɪsɪpeɪt/
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