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verb

Share v. t. (past & past part. shared; pres. part. sharing)

To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to divide. "Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger."

To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a shelter with another. "While avarice and rapine share the land."

To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide. (Obs.) "The shared visage hangs on equal sides."

Share v. i. To have part; to receive a portion; to partake, enjoy, or suffer with others. "A right of inheritance gave every one a title to share in the goods of his father."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sharing" Quotes from Famous Books

... had achieved but a mild curiosity concerning her came back to visit his mind and he tried desperately to build an instant idea of her from these. And then turning his face from her he plunged directly into his thoughts of the past months as though she had been sharing talking ...

— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson

... Einstein with sharing the development of his theory. He is doubtless better able than any other man—except the author himself—to explain ...

— The Einstein Theory of Relativity • H.A. Lorentz

... thinks otherwise when he is dying? 2. What eulogizer, mourning the dead, does not exalt them to heaven and place them among the angels conversing with them and sharing their joy? Some men are deified. 3. Who among the common people does not believe that when he dies, if he has lived well he will enter a heavenly paradise, be arrayed in white, and enjoy eternal life? 4. What priest does not speak so to the dying? And when he speaks so he believes it, provided ...

— Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence • Emanuel Swedenborg

... something singularly indicatory I in this engagement. It may involve at once a type, a parallel, and a prophecy. Sharing the same blood with England, and yet her proved foe in two wars—not wholly inclined at bottom to forget an old grudge—intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals ...

— Israel Potter • Herman Melville

... the appropriation of the goods of the world by a privileged minority as an iniquitous robbery, cannot enjoy knowingly the comforts that belong by natural right to another unhappy being. I can only enjoy them sharing them ...

— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

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