propagate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause (an organism) to multiply or breed.
2. v. To breed (offspring).
3. v. To transmit (characteristics) from one generation to another.
4. v. To cause to extend to a broader area or larger number; spread: missionaries who propagate the faith.
5. v. To make widely known; publicize: propagate a rumor.
6. v. Physics To cause (a wave, for example) to move in some direction or through a medium; transmit.
7. v. To have offspring; multiply.
8. v. To extend to a broader area or larger number; spread.
9. v. Physics To move through a medium.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To multiply or continue by natural generation or reproduction; cause to reproduce itself: applied to plants and animals: as, to propagate fruittrees; to propagate a breed of horses or sheep.
2. To transmit or spread from person to person or from place to place; carry forward or onward; diffuse; extend: as, to propagate a report; to propagate the Christian religion.
3. To promote; augment; increase.
4. To produce; originate; invent.
5. To scatter; disperse.
6. Synonyms To increase, spread, disseminate.
7. To be multiplied or reproduced by generation, or by new shoots or plants; bear young.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.
2. v. transitive To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.
3. v. transitive To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate
4. v. obsolete, intransitive To multiply; to increase.
5. v. transitive To generate; to produce.
6. v. intransitive To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.
7. v. intransitive, computing To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
8. v. transitive, computing To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants
2. v. To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
3. v. To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate
4. v. obsolete To multiply; to increase.
5. v. To generate; to produce.
6. v. To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
2. v. cause to become widely known
3. v. transmit.
4. v. travel through the air
5. v. multiply sexually or asexually
6. v. transmit from one generation to the next
7. v. transmit or cause to broaden or spread
8. v. become distributed or widespread