Propagate

Quick meaning: Propagate is a verb meaning (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.

Meaning

(transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
2. (transitive) To generate; to produce.
3. (intransitive) To be propagated; to travel.
4. (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
5. (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
6. (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.

Example Sentences

to propagate sound or light

Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, / Which thou wilt propagate.

As pigeons propagate so rapidly, I suppose that a thousand or fifteen hundred birds would have to be annually killed by mere chance.

But to [Edmund] Burke, […] the mere act of movement became the principle or cause of movement. Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.

Word Forms

• propagates
• propagating
• propagated

Synonyms for propagate

Depending on context, synonyms include disseminate, disperse, diffuse, broadcast, distribute, circulate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disseminate, spread, diffuse, disperse, broadcast, circularize.

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