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Shared

adjective
1.
Have in common; held or experienced in common.  "A shared interest in philately"
2.
Distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose.  Synonyms: divided, divided up, shared out.


Share

verb
(past & past part. shared; pres. part. sharing)
1.
Have in common.  "The two countries share a long border"
2.
Use jointly or in common.
3.
Have, give, or receive a share of.  Synonyms: partake, partake in.
4.
Give out as one's portion or share.  Synonyms: apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out.
5.
Communicate.



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"Shared" Quotes from Famous Books



... care for him. I thought we might have shared him if you had, and if he'd cared for us both. But ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay
... in Ralph's mind. He felt convinced that Katharine was engaged to Rodney. His first sensation was one of violent rage with her for having deceived him throughout the visit, fed him with pleasant old wives' tales, let him see her as a child playing in a meadow, shared her youth with him, while all the time she was a stranger entirely, ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... have beheld perhaps often before, and have vaguely liked, and realise that it has suddenly put on some new and delicate charm, some curve of cheek or floating tress; or there is something in the glance that was surely never there before, some consciousness of a secret that may be shared, some signal of half-alarmed interest, something that shows that the two lives, the two hearts, have some joyful significance for each other; and then there grows up that marvellous mood which men call love, which loses itself in hopes of meeting, ...
— Joyous Gard • Arthur Christopher Benson
... was one of the Digweeds—Edward Austen's tenants at Steventon—who shared with the Rectory party the deputed right of shooting over the Manor (Persuasion, ch. iii.). The New English Dictionary (s.v.) says 'The deputation was necessary to constitute a gamekeeper; but it was ...
— Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters - A Family Record • William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
... Montmartre, on the very top of the Butte. It had a hillside garden, with a dove-cote in it, and a little kiosk in which Emma liked to sit, with the cat Satan on her lap, and projeck at the strange world in which she found herself. She shared the house with a scene-painter and his wife, and as the scene-painter was an Englishman, Emma could talk to somebody and be understood. Emma's idea of happiness was leisure to sew squares of patchwork together for quilts. She had brought ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler


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