Usually means: Engage or take part actively.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word participate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. participate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. participate: Merriam-Webster
  3. participate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. participate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. participate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. participate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Participate, participate: Wordnik
  8. participate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. participate: Wiktionary
  10. participate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. participate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. participate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Participate, participate: Dictionary.com
  14. participate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Participate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. participate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. participate: Rhymezone
  18. participate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. participate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. participate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. participate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. participate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. participate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. participate: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. participate: Legal dictionary
  4. participate: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. participate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. participate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. participate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. participate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To share, to take part in (something).
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Acting in common; participating.

Similar:
take part, enter, attend, join, partake, participation, invite, engage, contribute, compete, more...

Opposite:
abstain, avoid, shun, neglect, withdraw

Types:
volunteer, contribute, vote, attend, join, attempt, try, attain, more...

Phrases:
participate in, participate but do not initiate, to participate in, not participate, choose not to participate, more...

Adjectives:
script, amazonian, how, why, user, test, many

Colors:
    orange,     green,     blue,     yellow,     red, more...



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Similar:
take part, enter, attend, join, partake, participation, invite, engage, contribute, compete, more...

Opposite:
abstain, avoid, shun, neglect, withdraw

Types:
volunteer, contribute, vote, attend, join, attempt, try, attain, more...

Phrases:
participate in, participate but do not initiate, to participate in, not participate, choose not to participate, decide to participate, forced to participate, participate contribute, agree to participate, more...

Adjectives:
script, amazonian, how, why, user, test, many

Colors:
    orange,     green,     blue,     yellow,     red, more...



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