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| Main Entry: |
propagation
 [prop-uh-gey-shuhn] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | procreation |
| Synonyms: | breeding, generation, multiplication, producing, proliferation, reproduction |
| Main Entry: | advocacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support for an idea or cause |
| Synonyms: | advancement, aid, assistance, backing, campaigning for, championing, defense, encouragement, justification, pleading for, promotion, promulgation, propagation, proposal, recommendation, upholding, urging |
| Antonyms: | attack, opposition, protest |
| Main Entry: | childbirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving birth |
| Synonyms: | accouchement, bearing children, blessed event, childbed, confinement, delivering, delivery, labor, lying-in, nativity, parturience, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, visit from the stork |
Example Sentences
- And thank you sir for discouraging and impeding the propagation of thoughts.
- Propagation is the subject that won him two big book awards so this evening should be inspirational.
- Their number has steadily increased through propagation and spur-of-the-moment purchases at florists and local nurseries.
| Main Entry: | continuation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition; maintenance |
| Synonyms: | assiduity, augmenting, continuance, continuing, continuity, duration, endurance, enduring, extension, furtherance, going on, increase, increasing, line, maintaining, perpetuating, perpetuation, persisting, postscript, preservation, preserving, producing, production, prolongation, prolonging, propagation, protracting, protraction, sequel, succession, supplement, sustaining, sustenance, tenacity |
| Antonyms: | cessation, end, finish, halt, stop, termination |
| Main Entry: | diffusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spread; wide distribution |
| Synonyms: | circulation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, expansion, propaganda, propagation, scattering |
| Antonyms: | collection, concentration |
| Main Entry: | dissemination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distribution |
| Synonyms: | airing, broadcasting, circulation, diffusion, dissipation, promulgation, propagation, publication, publishing, spread |
| Antonyms: | collection, gathering |
| Main Entry: | distribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation, dispersion |
| Synonyms: | administration, alloting, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assessment, assigning, circulating, circulation, dealing, delivery, diffusion, dispensation, dispersal, disposal, disposing, dissemination, dissipating, division, dole, handing out, handling, mailing, marketing, partition, partitioning, propagation, prorating, rationing, scattering, sharing, spreading, trading, transport, transportation |
| Antonyms: | collection, gathering, hoard, hoarding, maintenance, store |
| Main Entry: | generation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, production |
| Synonyms: | bearing, begetting, breeding, bringing forth, engenderment, formation, fructifying, genesis, multiplying, origination, procreation, propagation, reproduction, spawning |
| Antonyms: | destruction |
| Main Entry: | genesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, creation |
| Synonyms: | alpha, birth, commencement, dawn, dawning, engendering, formation, generation, inception, opening, origin, outset, propagation, provenance, provenience, root, source, start |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, finale, finish |
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