propagate   (Sound)

The verb propagate has 8 senses

• propagate -- (transmit from one generation to the next; "propagate these characteristics")


• propagate -- (travel through the air; "sound and light propagate in this medium")


• propagate -- (transmit; "propagate sound or light through air")


• spread, propagate -- (become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population")


• propagate -- (transmit or cause to broaden or spread; "This great civilization was propagated throughout the land")


• circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around -- (cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news")


• propagate -- (cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering)


• propagate -- (multiply sexually or asexually)