English > interact: 1 sense > verb 1, social| Meaning | Act together or towards others or with others. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
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| Example | "He should interact more with his colleagues" |
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| Narrower | combine | join for a common purpose or in a common action / action |
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| communicate, intercommunicate | transmit thoughts or feelings |
| communicate | Be in verbal / verbal contact |
| consort, associate, affiliate, assort | keep company with |
| conspire, collude | Act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose |
| fall all over | Display excessive love or show excessive gratitude towards |
| get in touch, touch base, connect | Establish communication with someone |
| have | Have a personal or business relationship with someone |
| intervene, step in, interfere, interpose | Get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat / threat of force |
| invite, pay for | Have as a guest |
| manipulate, keep in line, control | Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage |
| marginalize, marginalise | relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people |
| meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather | Collect in one place |
| patronize, patronise, condescend | treat condescendingly |
| philander, womanize, womanise | Have amorous affairs |
| reach out | attempt to communicate |
| relate | Have or establish a relationship to |
| socialize, socialise | take part in social activities |
| transact | Conduct business |
| treat, handle, do by | interact in a certain way |
| Broader | act, move | Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) |
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| Spanish | interaccionar, interactuar, relacionarse |
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| Catalan | interaccionar, interactuar, relacionar-se |
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| Adjectives | interactive | capable of acting on or influencing each other |
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| Nouns | interaction | a mutual or reciprocal action |
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