propagate
verb🔊/ˈprɒpəɡeɪt/
🔊/ˈprɑːpəɡeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they propagate | 🔊/ˈprɒpəɡeɪt/ 🔊/ˈprɑːpəɡeɪt/ |
| he / she / it propagates | 🔊/ˈprɒpəɡeɪts/ 🔊/ˈprɑːpəɡeɪts/ |
| past simple propagated | 🔊/ˈprɒpəɡeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈprɑːpəɡeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle propagated | 🔊/ˈprɒpəɡeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈprɑːpəɡeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form propagating | 🔊/ˈprɒpəɡeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈprɑːpəɡeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] propagate something (formal)
to spread an idea, a belief or a piece of information among many people 传播；宣传 - [transitive, intransitive] propagate (something) (specialist)
to produce new plants from a parent plant 繁殖；增殖 The plant can be propagated from seed. 这种植物可由种子繁殖。 🔊🔊 Plants won't propagate in these conditions. 植物在这种条件下不能繁殖。 🔊🔊
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin propagat- ‘multiplied from layers or shoots’, from the verb propagare; related to propago ‘young shoot’ (from a base meaning ‘fix’).