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Another word for propagate

Verb

  1. To bring into existence and foster the development of

    2. See also:

    reproduction

    care for

  2. To produce sexually or asexually others of one's kind

    3. See also:

    reproduction

  3. To make (information) generally known

    4. Idioms:
    See also:

    knowledge

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Sentence Examples

  • Gather and dry herbs; also propagate these by slips and cuttings.

  • Begin to propagate greenhouse plants by cuttings; also coleuses by cuttings in heat, potting them off as soon as rooted.

  • Propagate by slips, or by earthing up the old stems, the various pot-herbs.

  • Rose was a highchurchman, who to propagate his views in 1832 founded the British Magazine and so came into touch with the leaders of the Oxford movement.

  • Atterbom and some fellow-students founded about 1810 a society for the deliverance of the country from French pedantry, which with this end carried on a periodical entitled Phosphoros (1810-1813), to propagate the opinions of Schlegel and Schelling.

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