Meaning

9 senses
  1. (transitive)To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.

  2. (transitive)To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.

    to propagate sound or light

    verbreiten

    распространя́тьrasprostranjátʹ, распространи́тьrasprostranítʹ

    розповсю́джуватиrozpovsjúdžuvaty, поши́рюватиpošýrjuvaty

    transmit or cause to broaden or spread

  3. (transitive)To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.

  4. (transitive)To generate; to produce.

  5. (intransitive)To be propagated; to travel.

    travel through the air

  6. (intransitive)To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.

    sich vermehren

    размножа́тьсяrazmnožátʹsja, размно́житьсяrazmnóžitʹsja

  7. (intransitive)To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

    It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.

  8. (transitive)To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

    The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.

  9. (obsolete, transitive)To multiply; to increase.

    размножа́тьrazmnožátʹ, размно́житьrazmnóžitʹ, размножа́тьсяrazmnožátʹsja

    multiply sexually or asexually

Examples

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  1. Ziri wanted to propagate his ivies.

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  2. Ziri wants to propagate his ivy.

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  3. Ivy is super easy to propagate.

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  4. Ziri wants to propagate his heather.

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  5. I want to propagate the oleander.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to cause to spread to extend:
Русский
By meaning 2
to cause to spread to extend:
(obsolete in English) to multiply; to increase:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to cause to spread to extend:
biology: to produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants:

Origin

First attested in 1535; from Latin prōpāgātus, perfect passive participle of prōpāgō, see

First attested in 1535; from Latin prōpāgātus, perfect passive participle of prōpāgō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

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Forms

propagates, propagating, propagated, propagated
Base formpropagate · to propagate
3rd person singularpropagates
Present participlepropagating
Past simplepropagated
Past participlepropagated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypropagate
he, she, itpropagates

Past simpleLesson

all personspropagated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave propagated
he, she, ithas propagated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill propagate

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

15 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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