| Main Entry: | propagate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | breed, reproduce |
Synonyms: |
bear, beget, engender, father, fecundate, fertilize, generate, grow, impregnate, increase, inseminate, make pregnant, mother, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, proliferate, raise, sire |
Antonyms: |
destroy, kill |
| Main Entry: | propagate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spread, make known |
Synonyms: |
broadcast, circulate, develop, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, radiate, scatter, strew, transmit |
Antonyms: |
conceal, hide |
| Main Entry: | bear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give birth |
Synonyms: |
be delivered of, beget, breed, bring forth, create, develop, engender, form, fructify, generate, invent, make, parturitate, produce, propagate, provide, reproduce, yield |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
Antonyms: |
be unproductive |
| Main Entry: | beget |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, bear |
Synonyms: |
afford, breed, bring, bring about, cause, effect, engender, father, generate, get, give rise to, multiply, occasion, procreate, produce, progenerate, propagate, reproduce, result in, sire |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | generate, bring into being |
Synonyms: |
bear, beget, bring about, bring forth, cause, create, deliver, engender, give birth to, give rise to, hatch, impregnate, induce, make, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, progenerate, propagate, reproduce |
Antonyms: |
not produce |
| Main Entry: | circulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make known |
Synonyms: |
bring out, broadcast, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, exchange, interview, issue, promulgate, propagate, publicize, publish, radiate, report, spread, strew, troll |
| Main Entry: | cultivate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop land for growing |
Synonyms: |
breed, crop, dress, farm, fertilize, garden, harvest, labor, manage, mature, plant, plow, prepare, propagate, raise, ripen, seed, tend, till, work |
Antonyms: |
destroy, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | diffuse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spread out |
Synonyms: |
broadcast, catholic, circulated, diluted, dispersed, disseminated, distributed, expanded, extended, general, prevalent, propagated, radiated, scattered, separated, strewn, thin, unconcentrated, universal, widespread |
Antonyms: |
compact, compressed, concentrated, confined, limited, restricted |
| Main Entry: | disperse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distribute; scatter |
Synonyms: |
banish, besprinkle, break up, broadcast, cast forth, circulate, deal, diffuse, disappear, disband, disburse, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, dispel, disseminate, dissipate, dissolve, divvy, dole out, eject, intersperse, measure out, partition, propagate, radiate, rout, scatter, scramble, send off, separate, shed, sow, split up, spray, spread, strew, take off in all directions, vanish |
Antonyms: |
arrange, assemble, collect, garner, gather |
| Main Entry: | disseminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distribute, scatter |
Synonyms: |
advertise, announce, annunciate, blaze, blazon, broadcast, circulate, declare, diffuse, disject, disperse, dissipate, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publicize, publish, radiate, sow, spread, strew |
Antonyms: |
collect, gather |