associate
/əˈsoʊʃieɪt/ verb B1- To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- To spend time socially; keep company. · She associates with her coworkers on weekends.· Before the race he associated only with other skiers.
- To join as a partner, ally, or friend. · He associated his name with many environmental causes.
- To connect or join together; combine. · particles of gold associated with other substances
- To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- To endorse. · She refused to associate herself with the petition.
- To be associative.
He/she/it associates · Past associated · Past participle associated · -ing form associating
Verb forms
- Base form
- associate
- He/she/it
- associates
- Past
- associated
- Past participle
- associated
- -ing form
- associating
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He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.
Something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep.
Even if I accepted the compliment for myself I could hardly name any volume which would be less likely to lie at the elbow of one of Moriarty’s associates.
“You don’t associate his past with any particular part of America?”
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