Propagate Definition

prŏpə-gāt
propagated, propagates, propagating
verb
propagated, propagates, propagating
To reproduce or multiply, as plants or animals.
Webster's New World
To cause (a plant or animal) to reproduce itself; raise or breed.
Webster's New World
To breed (offspring).
American Heritage
To transmit (hereditary characteristics) by reproduction.
Webster's New World
To cause to extend to a broader area or larger number; spread.
Missionaries who propagate the faith.
American Heritage
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Origin of Propagate

  • Latin prōpāgāre prōpāgāt- pag- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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.

  • Rose was a highchurchman, who to propagate his views in 1832 founded the British Magazine and so came into touch with the leaders of the Oxford movement.

  • Atterbom and some fellow-students founded about 1810 a society for the deliverance of the country from French pedantry, which with this end carried on a periodical entitled Phosphoros (1810-1813), to propagate the opinions of Schlegel and Schelling.

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ETEATE

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