inform
/ɪnˈfoɹm/ verb B1- To communicate knowledge to.
- To impart information or knowledge.
- To act as an informer; denounce.
- To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
- To direct, guide. · Don’t forget the code of ethics that informs this profession.
He/she/it informs · Past informed · Past participle informed · -ing form informing
Verb forms
- Base form
- inform
- He/she/it
- informs
- Past
- informed
- Past participle
- informed
- -ing form
- informing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Sire, I have come as rapidly to Paris as possible, to inform your majesty that I have discovered, in the exercise of my duties, not a commonplace and insignificant plot, such as is every day got up in the lower ranks of the people and in the army, but an actual conspiracy—a storm which menaces no less than your majesty’s throne.
On reaching the spacious lobby above, they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room, when last at Pemberley.
“‘The king’s attorney is informed by a friend to the throne and the religious institutions of his country, that one named Edmond Dantès, mate of the ship Pharaon, this day arrived from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been the bearer of a letter from Murat to the usurper, and again taken charge of another letter from the usurper to the Bonapartist club in Paris.
Reynolds informed them, that it had been taken in his father’s lifetime.
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