disseminate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To spread information or ideas widely to many people.

   The agency used social media to disseminate the safety warning quickly.

2. 2
   verb

   To become widespread or spread out over a large area.

   The values of the movement disseminated throughout the world.

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”).

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