disseminate
UK /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/ US /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/
verb 2
Definitions
verb
1
To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
2
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 other, I use for convenience sake the general term of struggle for existence.
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