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1. Make a logical or causal connection
   "I cannot relate these events at all";
   - associate, tie in, link, colligate, link up, connect
    
2. Be relevant to
   "There were lots of questions relating to her talk";
   - refer, pertain, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have to do with
    
3. Give an account of; narrate
   "The witness related the events"
    
4. Be in a relationship with
   "How are these two observations related?";
   - interrelate
    
5. Interact with and have or form some kind of relationship
   "She relates well to her peers"

Derived forms: relating, relates, related

Type of: be, cerebrate, cogitate, interact, narrate, recite, recount, retail[2], tell, think

Encyclopedia: Relate