verb (v)

• transmit from one generation to the next(verb.possession)

  Example:
  Propagate these characteristics.
  

  source: wordnet30
• travel through the air(verb.motion)

  Example:
  Sound and light propagate in this medium.
  

  source: wordnet30
• transmit(verb.contact)

  Example:
  Propagate sound or light through air.
  

  Synonym:
  bring in
  

  source: wordnet30
• become distributed or widespread(verb.contact)

  Synonym:
  spread
  

  source: wordnet30
• transmit or cause to broaden or spread(verb.contact)

  Example:
  This great civilization was propagated throughout the land.
  

  source: wordnet30
• cause to become widely known(verb.communication)

  Synonym:
  broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, spread
  

  source: wordnet30
• cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering(verb.body)

  source: wordnet30
• multiply sexually or asexually(verb.body)

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.(verb)

  source: webster1913