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Propagate

To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.

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Verb group 4

Circulate 84% connected

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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Circulate 84% connected

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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Broader term 16

Air 76% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Bare 76% connected

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Distribute 76% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Multiply 76% connected

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Procreate 76% connected

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

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Reproduce 76% connected

To produce again.

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Spread 76% connected

of Spread

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Transmit 76% connected

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…

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Transport 76% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Manner of action 9

Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Generalize 76% connected

To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

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Inoculate 76% connected

To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

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Popularize 76% connected

To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy.

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Sow 76% connected

To sew. See Sew.

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Vegetate 76% connected

To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.

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Vulgarize 76% connected

To make vulgar, or common.

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Derivationally related 16

Dispersal 74% connected

The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.

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Dispersal 74% connected

The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.

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Dispersive 74% connected

Tending to disperse.

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Dispersive 74% connected

Tending to disperse.

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Dissemination 74% connected

The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dissemination 74% connected

The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Extension 74% connected

The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expa…

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Extension 74% connected

The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expa…

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Propagation 74% connected

The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants.

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Propagation 74% connected

The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants.

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Propagative 74% connected

Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.

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Propagative 74% connected

Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.

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Propagator 74% connected

One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.

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Propagator 74% connected

One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.

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Spread 74% connected

of Spread

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Spread 74% connected

of Spread

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Causes 2

Circulate 72% connected

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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Synonym 7

Broadcast 92% connected

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Circulate 92% connected

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Diffuse 92% connected

To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disperse 92% connected

To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disseminate 92% connected

To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and err…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Distribute 92% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Spread 92% connected

of Spread

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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