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- pronunciation:
- pra
p
geIt
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
propagates, propagating, propagated |
| definition 1: |
to reproduce (offspring) or cause to reproduce.
The botanist propagated the mutant plants.- synonyms:
- reproduce
- similar words:
- bear, beget, breed, engender, generate, procreate, root, spawn
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| definition 2: |
to transmit by heredity.
- synonyms:
- transmit
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| definition 3: |
to publicize or disseminate (a doctrine, information, or the like).
- synonyms:
- circulate, disseminate, publicize, spread
- similar words:
- broadcast, diffuse, disperse, issue, noise about, promulgate, propagandize, publish, trumpet
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| definition 4: |
to cause (sound waves, heat, or the like) to move through space or matter; transmit.
- synonyms:
- transmit
- similar words:
- circulate, send
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| related words: |
advertise, conceive, disseminate, father |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to reproduce or breed.
- synonyms:
- multiply, reproduce
- similar words:
- bear, breed, increase, procreate, proliferate, spawn
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| definition 2: |
to move through a physical medium; be transmitted, as sound waves, heat, or the like.
- similar words:
- breed, circulate, diffuse, spread
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| related words: |
conceive, develop |
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| derivations: |
propagative (adj.), propagator (n.) |
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