transmit verb (PASS) - definition in British English Dictionary & Thesaurus

/trænzˈmɪt/

/træns-/ v (-tt-)

Definition

[T] to pass something from one person or place to another

a sexually transmitted disease

Cholera is transmitted through contaminated water.

Some diseases are transmitted from one generation to the next.

[R] Somehow your panic and fear transmits itself to the horse that you're riding.

(Definition of transmit verb (PASS) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Synonyms and related words:

worried or nervous about something that is going to happen

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