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- Dictionarypropagate/ˈprɒpəɡeɪt/
verb
- 1. breed specimens of (a plant or animal) by natural processes from the parent stock: "try propagating your own houseplants from cuttings" Similar
- 2. spread and promote (an idea, theory, etc.) widely: "the French propagated the idea that the English were drunkards" Similar
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PROPAGATE definition: 1. to produce a new plant using a parent plant: 2. (of a plant or animal) to produce young plants…. Learn more.
To propagate is to be fruitful and multiply, by the usual routes of reproduction, or by spreading something around — like a rumor. Propagate comes from the Latin word propagare, which means "to reproduce plants, breed." Plants love to propagate, especially when someone with a green thumb starts off with a jade plant stem in water and ends up ...
1. : to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction. 2. : to pass along to offspring. 3. a. : to cause to spread out and affect a greater number or greater area : extend. b. : to foster growing knowledge of, familiarity with, or acceptance of (something, such as an idea or belief) : publicize. c.
to spread (a report, doctrine, practice, etc.) from person to person; disseminate. to cause to increase in number or amount. to create (an effect) at a distance, as by electromagnetic waves, compression waves, etc., traveling through space or a physical medium; transmit: to propagate sound.
PROPAGATE meaning: 1. to produce a new plant using a parent plant: 2. (of a plant or animal) to produce young plants…. Learn more.
If people propagate an idea or piece of information, they spread it and try to make people believe it or support it.
PROPAGATE definition: 1. If you propagate plants, you help them to produce new plants, and if plants propagate, they…. Learn more.
Propagate Sentence Examples. Gather and dry herbs; also propagate these by slips and cuttings. Begin to propagate greenhouse plants by cuttings; also coleuses by cuttings in heat, potting them off as soon as rooted. Shift, repot and propagate all plants that are desirable.
Definition of propagate verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If people propagate an idea or piece of information, they spread it and try to make people believe it or support it. [ formal ] They propagated political doctrines that promised to tear apart the fabric of society.
