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disseminate
What does disseminate mean?
disseminate (verb): cause to become widely known.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use disseminate in a sentence?
How do you pronounce disseminate?
/dɪˈsɛməˌneɪt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does disseminate come from?
Borrowed from Latin dissēminātus, the perfect passive participle of dissēminō (“to broadcast, disseminate”), further from dis- (“asunder, in all directions”) + sēminō (“to plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of disseminate?
Words related to disseminate
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “disseminate” mean?
to cancel, invalidate, annul
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to make as large as possible
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to mount; to move upwards on
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cause to become widely known
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apologize
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circulate
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eliminate
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implement
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