propagate

About 1.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
2. verb To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.

   to propagate sound or light

3. verb To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
4. verb To multiply; to increase.
5. verb To generate; to produce.
6. verb To be propagated; to travel.
7. verb To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
8. verb To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

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

Similar words

disseminate spread diffuse disperse broadcast circularize circulate distribute circularise pass around

Often followed by

the their in by through a and his it

Word family

propagated propagates propagating propagative propagator propagators