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See definition of propagate on Dictionary.com
  • verbbreed, reproduce
  • verbspread, make known

synonyms for propagate

  • inseminate
  • multiply
  • proliferate
  • bear
  • beget
  • engender
  • father
  • fecundate
  • fertilize
  • generate
  • grow
  • impregnate
  • increase
  • mother
  • originate
  • procreate
  • produce
  • raise
  • sire
  • make pregnant
See also synonyms for: propagated / propagates / propagating / propagator

antonyms for propagate

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  • decrease
  • deplete
  • destroy
  • diminish
  • finish
  • halt
  • kill
  • lessen
  • reduce
  • result
  • stop
  • conceal
  • hide
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How to use propagate in a sentence

The second type of self-disseminating vaccine, the transmissible one, consists of live modified viruses that propagate a weakened form of a disease.
CAN VACCINES FOR WILDLIFE PREVENT HUMAN PANDEMICS?RODRIGO PÉREZ ORTEGAAUGUST 24, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
Emotionally charged prejudices are propagated from generation to generation by parental and adult authority and by the use of myths and symbols.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: TECHNOLOGY AND POWERKATIE MCLEANAUGUST 19, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
The lie started out as a rumor, which was first picked up and propagated by the American PR firm Hill & Knowlton.
THE GREAT LIE OF THE FIRST GULF WARMAT NASHEDAUGUST 17, 2020OZY
The precise history of these self-propagating stories here on Earth is excruciatingly hard to decode because what we see are the successes.
HOW LIFE COULD CONTINUE TO EVOLVE - ISSUE 88: LOVE & SEXCALEB SCHARFAUGUST 12, 2020NAUTILUS
If recombination happened earlier than supposed due to the clumping effect of magnetic fields, then sound waves couldn’t have propagated as far beforehand, and the resulting blobs would be smaller.
THE HIDDEN MAGNETIC UNIVERSE BEGINS TO COME INTO VIEWNATALIE WOLCHOVERJULY 2, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
These animals prefer cold countries, but can subsist and propagate in temperate ones.
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME VII (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON
If they could propagate their own they would be more likely to plant them.
NORTHERN NUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 1943VARIOUS
June is also the proper time to propagate pinks and carnations by pipings.
THE BOOK OF SPORTS:WILLIAM MARTIN
In the species of the hen and pigeon, a great number of races have been very lately produced, all of which propagate their kinds.
A TREATISE ON SHEEP:AMBROSE BLACKLOCK
It is a mutual action of male and female, with instruments ordained for that purpose to propagate their kind.
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WORDS RELATED TO PROPAGATE

  • be delivered of
  • beget
  • breed
  • bring forth
  • create
  • develop
  • engender
  • form
  • fructify
  • generate
  • invent
  • make
  • parturitate
  • produce
  • propagate
  • provide
  • reproduce
  • yield
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.