disseminate
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Definition of disseminate
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
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verb
- (transitive)To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
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(intransitive)To become widespread.
“The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.”
“As the missletoe is disseminated by birds, its existence depends on birds; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in order to tempt birds to devour and thus disseminate its seeds rather than those of other plants. In these several senses, which pass into each other, I use for convenience sake the general term of struggle for existence.”
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dissēminātus, the perfect passive participle of dissēminō (“to broadcast, disseminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from dis- (“asunder, in all directions”) + sēminō (“to plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also Middle English disseminat(e) (“disseminated”).
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