Provide one with information of a trophy, one hears (7)
I believe the answer is:
apprise
'provide' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'one with information of a trophy one hears' is the wordplay.
'one with' says to put letters next to each other.
'information of' becomes 'ap' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a trophy' becomes 'prize' ('prize' can be a synonym of 'trophy').
'one hears' shows a homophone (sound like) (I've seen 'hearing' mean this).
'prize' is a homophone of 'prise'.
'ap' put next to 'prise' is 'APPRISE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for apprise that I've seen before include "Inform, make aware of" , "Inform, make known to" , "Tell, advise" , "tip off" , "Formally inform, notify" .)