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Propagate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To cause (an organism) to multiply or breed.

v. To breed (offspring).

v. To transmit (characteristics) from one generation to another.

v. To cause to extend to a broader area or larger number; spread: missionaries who propagate the faith.

v. To make widely known; publicize: propagate a rumor.

v. Physics To cause (a wave, for example) to move in some direction or through a medium; transmit.

verb-intransitive. To have offspring; multiply.

verb-intransitive. To extend to a broader area or larger number; spread.

verb-intransitive. Physics To move through a medium.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.

v. To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.

v. To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate

v. To multiply; to increase.

v. To generate; to produce.

v. To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.

v. To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

v. To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants

v. To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.

v. To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate

v. To multiply; to increase.

v. To generate; to produce.

verb-intransitive. To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To multiply or continue by natural generation or reproduction; cause to reproduce itself: applied to plants and animals: as, to propagate fruittrees; to propagate a breed of horses or sheep.

To transmit or spread from person to person or from place to place; carry forward or onward; diffuse; extend: as, to propagate a report; to propagate the Christian religion.

To promote; augment; increase.

To produce; originate; invent.

To scatter; disperse.

Synonyms To increase, spread, disseminate.

To be multiplied or reproduced by generation, or by new shoots or plants; bear young.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering

v. cause to become widely known

v. transmit

v. travel through the air

v. multiply sexually or asexually

v. transmit from one generation to the next

v. transmit or cause to broaden or spread

v. become distributed or widespread

Word Usage

"The lie that you propagate is that the ‘Filthy Left’, in which you lump everyone without a black shirt, are communists and therefore all part and parcel of the murderous history of communism."

Verb Form

propagated propagates propagating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

transmit channelise transfer channelize transport

Form

propagator propagation

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

disseminate multiply increase generate produce