propagate

verb

1. (transitive)To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
2. (transitive)To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.

   “to propagate sound or light”

3. (transitive)To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.

   “There began to appear from the East, cropping up now here, now there, but in general along lines of advance towards the West, individuals or small communities who proposed and propagated a new and, as they called it, a purified form of religion.”

   “The works of the freethinker Averroes (twelfth century) which were based on Aristotle's philosophy, propagated a small wave of rationalism in Christian countries.”

   “The DPRK propagated an extraordinary tale of his birth occurring on Mount Baekdu, one of Korea's most revered sites, being accompanied by shooting stars in the sky.”

4. (obsolete, transitive)To multiply; to increase.

   “Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, / Which thou wilt propagate.”

5. (transitive)To generate; to produce.

   “But to [Edmund] Burke, […] the mere act of movement became the principle or cause of movement. Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.”

6. (intransitive)To be propagated; to travel.
7. (intransitive)To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.

   “As pigeons propagate so rapidly, I suppose that a thousand or fifteen hundred birds would have to be annually killed by mere chance.”

8. (intransitive)To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

   “It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.”

9. (transitive)To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

   “The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.”

adj

1. (obsolete)propagated