Usually means: Spreads or transmits something widely.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. propagates: Merriam-Webster
  2. propagates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. propagates: Vocabulary.com
  4. propagates: Wordnik
  5. propagates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. propagates: Wiktionary
  7. propagates: Dictionary.com
  8. propagates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. propagates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. propagates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. propagates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. propagates: Medical dictionary

(Note: See propagate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (propagate)

verb:  (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
verb:  (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.
verb:  (transitive) To generate; to produce.
verb:  (intransitive) To be propagated; to travel.
verb:  (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
verb:  (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
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