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say it: PRAH-puh-gayt
propagate is a verb meaning "transmit from one generation to the next". It carries 8 recorded senses.
become distributed or widespread
“the infection spread”
“Optimism spread among the population”
transmit or cause to broaden or spread
“This great civilization was propagated throughout the land”
cause to become widely known
“spread information”
“circulate a rumor”
“broadcast the news”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for propagate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.