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Verb propagate has 8 senses
- propagate - transmit from one generation to the next; "propagate these characteristics"
--1 is one way to pass on
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- propagate - travel through the air; "sound and light propagate in this medium"
--2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
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Something ----s
- propagate - transmit; "propagate sound or light through air"
--3 is one way to transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise
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Something ----s something
- spread, propagate - become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population"
--4 is one way to move
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Something ----s
- propagate - transmit or cause to broaden or spread; "This great civilization was propagated throughout the land"
--5 is one way to spread, distribute
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around - cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
--6 is one way to publicize, publicise, air, bare
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Somebody ----s something
- propagate - cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
--7 is one way to process, treat
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Somebody ----s something
- propagate - multiply sexually or asexually
--8 is one way to reproduce, procreate, multiply
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