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Another word for propagate

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Verb

  1. To bring into existence and foster the development of

      1. To move to a higher position; elevate:
      2. To set in an upright or erect position:
      3. To erect or build:
      1. To increase in size by a natural process.
      2. To expand; gain:
      3. To increase in amount or degree; intensify:
      1. To improve and prepare (land), as by plowing or fertilizing, for raising crops; till.
      2. To loosen or dig soil around (growing plants).
      3. To grow or tend (a plant or crop).
      1. To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.
      2. To bring about; engender:
      3. To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection:

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

  3. To make (information) generally known

      1. To open to a fuller extent or width; stretch:
      2. To make wider the gap between; move farther apart:
      3. To distribute over a surface in a layer:
      1. To make known to the public; popularize or advocate:
      2. To put (a law, for example) into effect by formal public announcement.
      1. Sound or a sound that is loud, unpleasant, unexpected, or undesired.
      2. Sound or a sound of any kind:
      3. A loud outcry or commotion:
      1. To scatter widely, as in sowing seed.
      2. To spread abroad; promulgate:
      3. To become diffused; spread.
      1. To move in or flow through a circle or circuit:
      2. To move around, as from person to person or place to place:
      3. To move about or flow freely, as air.
      1. To spread news of; repeat.
      2. An abnormal sound heard in auscultation.
      3. A rumor.
      1. To communicate or transmit (a signal, a message, or content, such as audio or video programming) to numerous recipients simultaneously over a communication network:
      2. To make known over a wide area:
      3. To sow (seed) over a wide area, especially by hand.
      1. To describe (a coat of arms) in proper terms.
      2. To paint or depict (a coat of arms) with accurate detail.
      3. To adorn or embellish with or as if with a coat of arms:
      1. A brilliant burst of fire; a flame.
      2. A destructive fire.
      3. A bright or steady light or glare:
      1. To make public announcement of, especially to proclaim the qualities or advantages of (a product or business) so as to increase sales.
      2. To make known; call attention to:
      3. To warn or notify:
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Another word for propagate

Verb

  1. To beget

  2. To spread

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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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