Dictionary Definition
disseminate v : cause to become widely known;
"spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
[syn: circulate,
circularize,
circularise,
distribute, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass
around]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
disseminatus, past participle of disseminare, from prefix dis- "in all directions" + seminare "to plant or propagate", from semen, seminis "seed."Pronunciation
- (UK) /dɪ'semɪˌneɪt/
Verb
- To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, and errors for growth and propagation, like seed
- To become scattered.
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- The myth is disseminated throughout the southwest.
Derived terms
Translations
transitive: to sow and scatter principles, etc. for propagation, like seed intransitive: to become scatteredtransitive: to sow and scatter principles, etc.
for propagation, like seed
intransitive: to become scattered
Italian
Verb
disseminate- Form of Second-person plural imperative, disseminare#Italian|disseminare
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
advertise, announce, annunciate, assign, bed, bestrew, blazon, broadcast, carry over,
circulate, circumfuse, communicate, consign, convey, deal out, deliver, deport, dibble, diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, distribute, diverge, drill, expel, export, extradite, fan out, forest, get across, get over,
give, give word, hand
forward, hand on, hand over, impart, implant, import, inseminate, issue, leave word, make known,
make over, metastasize, metathesize, overscatter, oversow, overspread, pass, pass along, pass on, pass
over, pass the buck, perfuse, plant, pot, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publish, put in, radiate, reforest, relay, render, report, reset, retail, retimber, scatter, scatter seed, seed, seed down, seminate, send, send word, set, share, share with, signal, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spread, spread out, straw, strew, switch, tell, transfer, transfer property,
transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transpose, turn over, utter