ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsPpropagate
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propagate
Meaning: to spread ideas or information widely
propagate in a sentence
How propagate is used in real sentences:
The forged documents helped propagate a false account of the uprising.
Cheap printing helped propagate scientific ideas beyond universities and royal courts.
“Still, advocates of flight continued to propagate their interpretation through conference posters and popular magazines, where a bold reconstruction traveled faster than the cautious data behind it.”
— from the passage The Bone That Would Not Settle
Synonyms for propagate
Other words for propagate — disseminate, circulate and spread — carry the same meaning.
- disseminate
- circulate
- spread
Antonyms of propagate
Words that mean the opposite of propagate:
- suppress
- contain
- stifle
Where it comes from
From Latin propagare, meaning 'to spread or extend.'
Memory hook
PROPAGATE sounds like 'proper gate': ideas pass through a gate and spread outward.