Disseminate

Quick meaning: Disseminate is a verb meaning (transitive) To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.

Meaning

(transitive) To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become widespread.

Example Sentences

The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.

As the missletoe is disseminated by birds, its existence depends on birds; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in order to tempt birds to devour and thus disseminate its seeds rather than those of other plants. In these several senses, which pass into each other, I use for convenience sake the general term of struggle for existence.

Word Forms

• disseminates
• disseminating
• disseminated

Synonyms for disseminate

Depending on context, synonyms include spread, circulate, propagate, disperse, diffuse, broadcast.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include propagate, diffuse, spread, disperse, broadcast, circulate.

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