The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propagate \Prop"a*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Propagated; p. pr. & vb. n. Propagating.] [L. propagatus, p. p. of propagare to propagate, akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, and cf. Pact, Prop, Prune, v. t.]
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.
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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.
The infection was propagated insensibly.
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To multiply; to increase. [Obs.]
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate.
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To generate; to produce.
Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.
--De Quincey.Syn: To multiply; continue; increase; spread; diffuse; disseminate; promote.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of propagate English)
Usage examples of "propagating".
A second enormous stride forward in propagating the race of man occurred when a male sperm was scientifically united with female ova.
And they can't allow you to suicide because the ethos of Central Worlds is dedicated to extending life and propagating it wherever and whenever possible.
One Thread, sinking into fertile soil, would burrow deep, propagating thousands in the warm earth, rendering it into a black-dusted wasteland.
The laws of electromagnetism themselves had proved strikingly successful in predicting the existence of propagating waves, their velocity and other quantities, and appeared to be on solid ground.
But in any case, if the local gravitational field is effectively the propagating ether, the speed of a traveling disturbance will vary with its density, and the same result can be arrived at by treating it as a refractive medium in uncurved space.
But when it hit a Rix tank just right, its maw precisely aligned to the hexagonal weave of the armor, it cut through metal and ceramic like a rip propagating down a cloth seam.
As Waterhouse approaches it, he can see older calculations layered atop each other, fading off into the blackness like transmissions of white light propagating into deep space.
Whenever you have an oscillating voltage in a conductor like this, it means that electromagnetic waves are propagating out into space.
Deep within its shell, cells ruptured and spasmed, propagating fractures clean through the polyp.
The young, frantic stars which cluttered the interior were venting tremendous storms of ultra-hot gas, propagating shockwaves that travelled over a hundred and fifty thousand kilometres an hour.
If not for the deuteronomists, the world's monotheists would still be sacrificing animals and propagating their beliefs through the oral tradition.
Anywhere life exists, the metavirus is there, too, propagating through it.
It’s propagating directly through subspace at high warp—and it will overtake our present position in approximately three minutes at our present speed.
This and the rabbit told me that deadoc was doing more than maintaining his virus, he was still in the process of propagating it when disaster had struck.
I remembered enough from medical school and my training as a pathologist to know that when propagating a virus, the cells must be fed.