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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 
Sample sentences: 
 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 
Sample sentence: 
 Something ----s 
 - propagate - transmit; "propagate sound or light through air"
 
--3 is one way to transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise 
Sample sentence: 
 Something ----s something 
 - spread, propagate - become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population"
 
--4 is one way to move 
Sample sentence: 
 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 
Sample sentences: 
 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 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 - propagate - cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
 
--7 is one way to process, treat 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 - propagate - multiply sexually or asexually
 
--8 is one way to reproduce, procreate, multiply 
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 Something ----s 
  
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