Contact and Inform

Contact

Contact verb - To transmit information or requests to.

Usage example: you can contact me at this number

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Inform and contact are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Inform" instead a verb "Contact".

Nearby Words: contacted, contactor, contacting

Inform verb - To give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities.

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Contact and inform are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contact" instead a verb "Inform".

person	contact person	inform person
people	contact people	inform people
wife	contact wife	inform wife
group	contact group	inform group
Other words: family, parents, team, time, characters, world, government, mother, father, police, doctor, anyone, player, authorities, son, superiors, heroes.

They were fans of a visiting football team, forced away from their loved ones with no way to contact them and inform them that they're at least alive.

Source: Film / The Dark Knight Rises
Alternately, there is a phone there which will contact a suicide hotline, which tells you "Thank you for calling the Hyperion Suicide Prevention Hotline, Handsome Jack regrets to inform you that you are a coward".

Source: Contract on the Hitman
After a small amount of contact with it, someone who is more knowledgeable about nature will casually inform them "That's poison ivy" (or poison oak, the plants have the same toxin).

Source: Know Your Vines

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