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self-propagate

self-propagate verb: to reproduce without outside help.

Verb

self-propagate (third-person singular simple present self-propagates, present participle self-propagating, simple past and past participle self-propagated)

  1. (intransitive) To reproduce without outside help.
    • The prionopathies are best known among the neurodegenerative diseases for their ability to misfold, self-propagate, and infect other organisms.2021 March 1, Anderson, K.N.; Overcast, W.B.; Brosch, J.R.; Graner, B.D.; Veronesi, M.C., “Prionopathies and Prionlike Protein Aberrations in Neurodegenerative Diseases”, in American Society of...

Forms of self-propagate

third-person singular presentself-propagates
present participleself-propagating
past participleself-propagated
pastself-propagated

Origin of self-propagate

From self- + propagate.

Questions about self-propagate

What does self-propagate mean?
Self-propagate means to reproduce without outside help.
What part of speech is self-propagate?
Self-propagate is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-propagate?
The past tense of self-propagate is self-propagated.

Words near self-propagate in the dictionary

  1. self-promoting
  2. self-promotion
  3. self-promotional
  4. self-promotions
  5. self-pronouncing
  6. self-propagate
  7. self-propagated
  8. self-propagates
  9. self-propagating
  10. self-propelled
  11. self-propelling

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