circulate

circulate
v
1. spread, spread abroad, scatter, bestrew, strew, send out, disseminate, propagate, diffuse, disperse, intersperse, distribute; emit, give out, put forth, put forward; advertise, placard, publicize, make known, make public, publish, promulgate, run, Archaic. divulgate; proclaim, announce, declare, tell, utter, enunciate, give currency to; report, bring into the open, divulge, lay before the public, give to the world; blazon, blaze abroad, trumpet, broadcast, proclaim from the rooftops, proclaim at the crossroads, herald, noise abroad, hawk about; rumor, rumor about, bruit, whisper about, repeat, bandy about; air, ventilate, vent.
2. spread like wildfire, go the length and breadth of the land, course; get abroad, get out, come out, be published, become public, acquire currency; be diffused, permeate; drift, flit, blow about, scatter, disperse; emanate, flow, issue, go forth; meander, wander, pass around, travel; pass from mouth to mouth, change hands; go the rounds, circuit, shift about.
3. rotate, turn, circumrotate, revolve, circumvolve; move in a circle, circle, go around, compass; pirouette, gyrate, spiral, spin, pivot, swivel; whirl, swirl, gurge; wheel, roll, trundle; move around, pass around, round, make rounds; convolute, coil, twist, convolve; roll, curl, furl, involute; incurve, curve; reel, wind, unwind.

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