figurative. To disseminate or spread; to endeavour to propagate or extend. In various contexts.

transitive (figurative) To proclaim, publish, blaze, spread abroad, about, (out obsolete), etc.

transitive. To publish, promulgate publicly.

transitive. To diffuse, promulgate, publish.

transitive. To tell or spread abroad, report. Obsolete.

transitive. To proclaim, declare openly.

transitive. To proclaim, declare, make widely known. Also: to spread the fame of (a person); to speak of in a specified way. Obsolete.

transitive. To make public or generally known; to declare or report openly or publicly; to announce; (also) to propagate or disseminate (a creed…

transitive. To announce, declare; to make known or public. Obsolete.

transitive. To declare publicly; to make known aloud or openly; to publish. Also with clause or direct speech as object.

transitive. To publish or spread abroad. rare.

To cause to gradually reach a wider area or more people; to cause to become prevalent or (more)… transitive. With news, information, a rumour, fame…

transitive. To pierce or broach (a container, esp. a cask of liquor) so as to let the contents flow out; to release (liquor) from a container in this…

transitive. To direct or aim (words, speech, etc.) at a person, thing, subject, etc., in hostility or contempt, or in a casual or offhand manner…

transitive. To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report. to give (it) out: to profess, give it to be believed that. Also, to give (a person) out…

transitive. To publish, promulgate; to assert, advance (a claim). Obsolete.

transitive. To spread as a report; to report, rumour. Also (in weakened use): to say, maintain. Frequently with about, abroad. In passive.

transitive. To make public, to publish; to publicize.

transitive. To spread as a report; to report, rumour. Also (in weakened use): to say, maintain… In active use with simple object, with direct…

transitive. To make publicly known, to publish abroad (a statement, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To put into circulation; to publish, issue; to broadcast.

To spread (a rumour, tale, etc.). Obsolete.

intransitive. to come out with: to present (something) to or before the public; to introduce or make available (an innovation, new product…

transitive. With clause as object: to spread as a report or rumour; to report, rumour. Frequently in passive with anticipatory it and that-clause as…

transitive. To spread as a report or rumour; to report. Also: to spread rumours concerning. Frequently with about, abroad.

transitive. To claim, put out (that one is or has achieved something). Obsolete.

transitive. To make commonly known; to publish abroad.

transitive. To make known by public declaration; to publish; to proclaim; spec. (a) to put (a law, decree, etc.) into effect by official…

transitive. To divulge, disclose; to publish. Cf. propalate, v.

To publish abroad; to make public. rare.

transitive. To make public, publish, promulgate; to disseminate, propagate. Also intransitive.

To spread abroad or disseminate (rumours, news, etc.).

transitive. To spread or disseminate (a rumour, doctrine, etc.). Frequently with abroad.

transitive. To set forth, declare, or teach publicly (a creed, doctrine, opinion, etc.); to bring or set before the public, to publish. Now rare.

To make known abroad; to publish. Obsolete.

transitive. To publish; to make publicly known, expose.

transitive. To tell forth, publish abroad.

transitive. To hurl or bandy about.

transitive. To spread from person to person, or from place to place; to disseminate or promote (a belief, idea, practice, etc.); to spread (lies…

To publish (a treatise); to circulate (a report); to disseminate (a disease); to set (a matter) on foot.

To issue by way of publication; to publish. Now archaic. rare.

To promulgate, publish, issue (a regulation, proclamation, etc.).

with clause: To spread the report that. Obsolete.

transitive. To send out among the people, make commonly known or public; to divulge; to circulate, publish (a book).

transferred and figurative. Also, †to spread (reports, a prophecy).

transitive. To establish, originate, bring about, or set going (a state or condition of things, esp. one which causes trouble or annoyance); to…

transitive. To pass on or circulate (news, a rumour, a report, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To make public, make commonly known.

transitive. To declare or announce publicly; to promulgate; to proclaim. Now rare.

transitive. To disclose, divulge; to publish; to exhibit. Cf. propale, v.

figurative. To give out or forth, publish or spread abroad, by or as by utterance; to give utterance or publicity to (a doctrine, opinion, etc.); to…

= evulgate, v.

To spread abroad, publish; to report, rumour.

transitive. To make public; to publish.

To utter; to give utterance or expression to (an opinion, view, etc.): to make known to others.

figurative. To spread abroad, diffuse, promulgate (opinions, statements, knowledge, etc.).

To put forth, publish (a discourse). Also (after French exposer) to put (coin) in circulation. Obsolete.

To issue, publish (books, documents, notices). Obsolete.

transitive. Originally British. To circulate or disseminate (information, a rumour, etc.). Frequently with it and that-clause.

transitive. To publish, make known widely; also, to cause (a sound) to be heard far and wide. archaic or poetic.

transitive. To make public or generally known. Obsolete.

transitive. To read or expound (a text) in church. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To make generally known by means of an announcement in a public medium; spec. (a) to publish information about (a person (now rare)…

To pass on, publish abroad. Obsolete.

To circulate, spread about (a statement, report). Now chiefly northern dialect.

transitive. To put into circulation, put about, promulgate, give currency to, diffuse; put into the hands of readers, etc.

figurative. To scatter or disseminate widely.

figurative. With on or upon. (Cf. sense 4b.)

transitive. To put into general circulation.

(Gallicism.) To put into circulation; to spread (news, etc.).

To set (a rumour) afloat (see afloat, adv. 7); to give currency to; to circulate.