Definition of Propagate

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.

To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.

To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate; as, to propagate a story or report; to propagate the Christian religion.

To multiply; to increase.

To generate; to produce.

To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.

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Propagate Quotations

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Albert Ellis

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Joseph Addison

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.
Morarji Desai

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Propagate Translations

propagate in French is propageons, propagez, propagent
propagate in German is verbreiten
propagate in Italian is procreare
propagate in Latin is propago-are
propagate in Swedish is propagera, fortplanta

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