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Definition of Propagate

1. Verb. Transmit from one generation to the next. "Propagate these characteristics"

2. Verb. Travel through the air. "Sound and light propagate in this medium"

3. Verb. Transmit. "Propagate sound or light through air"

4. Verb. Become distributed or widespread. "Optimism spread among the population"

5. Verb. Transmit or cause to broaden or spread. "This great civilization was propagated throughout the land"

6. Verb. Cause to become widely known. "Broadcast the news"

7. Verb. Cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering.

8. Verb. Multiply sexually or asexually.

Definition of Propagate

1. v. t. 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.

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

Definition of Propagate

1. Verb. (transitive) 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. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate ¹

4. Verb. (obsolete intransitive) To multiply; to increase. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To generate; to produce. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly. ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Propagate

1. [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Propagate

propaganda propagandas propagandise propagandism propagandisms propagandist propagandistic propagandistically propagandists propagandize

propagandized propagandizer propagandizers propagandizes propagandizing propagate (current term) propagated propagates propagating propagation

propagational propagations propagative propagator propagators propage propaged propages propaging propagula

Literary usage of Propagate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"Graft on proper stocks, sow the seeds of deciduous trees and shrubs, propagate also by cuttings, sow hardy evergreens; weed the whole carefully, ..."

2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"See CAUSE. generate, vi breed, reproduce, grow, produce, conceive, propagate (chiefly tech.); spec, hatch, segment, increase, proliferate, teem, multiply, ..."

3. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"... and fourteenth Sorts are abiding Plants.whicb will trail on the Ground, and fend forth Roots from the Joints of their Stalks,whereby they propagate ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"James's good company, pass unchallenged for a time sufficient to propagate grave errors, which may never be corrected, and also disgrace our native ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Others, among them Thomas Belsham (1750-1829) and Lant Carpenter (1780-1840), continued to propagate Unitarianism in England. Legal restrictions were still ..."

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