pass around

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verb

1. cause to become widely known
- spread information
- circulate a rumor
- broadcast the news
• Syn:
circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate,
propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse
• Derivationally related forms:
dispersive (for: disperse), dispersion (for: disperse), dispersal (for: disperse), diffusive (for: diffuse), diffusion (for: diffuse), spread (for: spread), spreading (for: spread), broadcast (for: broadcast), propagation (for: propagate), propagator (for: propagate), disseminative (for: disseminate), dissemination (for: disseminate), disseminator (for: disseminate), circular (for: circularise), circulation (for: circulate)
• Hypernyms:
publicize, publicise, air, bare
• Hyponyms:
podcast, sow, popularize, popularise, vulgarize,
vulgarise, generalize, generalise, carry, run
• Verb Group:
go around, spread, circulate
• Cause:
go around, spread, circulate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. cause be distributed
- This letter is being circulated among the faculty
• Syn:
circulate, pass on, distribute
• Derivationally related forms:
circular (for: circulate), circulation (for: circulate)
• Hypernyms:
move, displace
• Hyponyms:
send around, utter, spread, scatter, spread out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody