Usually means: Spread or transmit something widely.
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  1. propagate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. propagate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. propagate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. propagate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. propagate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Propagate, propagate: Wordnik
  7. propagate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. propagate: Wiktionary
  9. propagate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. propagate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. propagate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. propagate: Dictionary.com
  13. propagate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Propagate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Propagate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. propagate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. propagate: Rhymezone
  18. Propagate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. propagate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. propagate: Free Dictionary
  21. propagate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. propagate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. propagate: CCI Computer
  2. propagate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. propagate: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. propagate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See propagable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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