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inform

[
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ɪnˈfɔːrm ]
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ɪnˈfɔːm ]
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Verb

1. Give (someone) facts or information; tell.

he wrote to her, informing her of the situation

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2. Give incriminating information about someone to the police or other authority.

It repeated a call for offenders to surrender and for others to inform on them.

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3. Give an essential or formative principle or quality to.

Our local actions should be informed by three global principles.

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Origin

1. Middle English enforme, informe ‘give form or shape to’, also ‘form the mind of, teach’, from Old French enfourmer, from Latin informare ‘shape, fashion, describe’, from in- ‘into’ + forma ‘a form’.

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