PROPAGATE

verb (-gated; -gating) see: pro- Date: circa 1570 transitive verb to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction, to pass along to offspring, 3. to cause to spread out and affect a greater number or greater area ; extend , to foster growing knowledge of, familiarity with, or acceptance of (as an idea or belief) ; publicize , to transmit (as sound or light) through a medium, intransitive verb to multiply sexually or asexually, increase , extend , to travel through space or a material, propagative adjective propagator noun