notify
Other forms: notified; notifying; notifies
To notify is to officially give someone a piece of information. If your poem wins the local poetry competition, the judges will notify you that you're the winner.
When you notify someone about something, it can be good or bad news. New parents notify friends and family about their baby's birth. When a library's money problems force it to close on Sundays, it might notify its patrons with an email or a letter. Notify comes from the Latin notificare, "to make known," which stems from notus, "known," and facere, "make or do."
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inform (somebody) of something
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This list covers Parallel Journeys and "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat."
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