disseminate
/dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/
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Australia/dɪˈsemɪˌnæɪt/
disseminate verb: to sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
Verb
disseminate (third-person singular simple present disseminates, present participle disseminating, simple past and past participle disseminated)
- To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
- To become widespread.
- The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.
- As the missletoe is disseminated by birds, its existence depends on birds; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in order to tempt birds to devour and thus disseminate its seeds rather than those of other plants. In these several senses, which pass into each...1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
disseminate meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
disseminate in Tamil
- பரவச்செய், பரவவிடு, பரவலாக விதை, தூவு, பலரும் அறியச் செய்
disseminate in Bengali
- প্রচার করা, ছড়িয়ে দেওয়া
disseminate in Malayalam
- circulate, spread, distribute
- വിതയ്ക്കുക, വിതറുക, പരത്തുക, പ്രസരിപ്പിക്കുക, പ്രചാരപ്പെടുത്തുക, ചുറ്റിലും അറിയിക്കുക
disseminate in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಸಾರಮಾಡು, ಪ್ರಚಾರಮಾಡು, ವ್ಯಾಪಕವಾಗಿಸು, ಹೊರಗೆಡಹು, ಸುತ್ತ ಹರಡು
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- disseminate in Tagalog
- magpakalat
Examples of disseminate in a sentence
- The governor received guidance on how to best disseminate key information to the public from her handler.
- The group regularly disseminates Q's messages on UCP's official YouTube livestream.
- They create and disseminate slogans and graphics, and celebrate when they show up in Mr.
Synonyms of disseminate
Forms of disseminate
| third-person singular present | disseminates |
|---|---|
| present participle | disseminating |
| past participle | disseminated |
| past | disseminated |
Origin of disseminate
Borrowed from Latin dissēminātus, the perfect passive participle of dissēminō (“to broadcast, disseminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from dis- (“asunder, in all directions”) + sēminō (“to plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also Middle English disseminat(e) (“disseminated”).
Words formed from disseminate
- autodisseminate
- disseminatability
- undisseminatability
- undisseminatable
- disseminatable
- dissemination
- disseminative
- disseminator
- disseminatory
- redisseminate
Questions about disseminate
- What does disseminate mean?
- Disseminate means to sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
- What is disseminate in Tamil?
- Disseminate in Tamil is பரவச்செய், பரவவிடு, பரவலாக விதை. See Disseminate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is disseminate?
- Disseminate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce disseminate?
- Disseminate is pronounced /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of disseminate?
- The past tense of disseminate is disseminated.
Words near disseminate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disseminate (page history and authors); disseminate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Disseminate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disseminate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); disseminate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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