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Circulate

verb

(past & past part. circulated; pres. part. circulating)

Become widely known and passed on. Synonyms: go around, spread. "The story went around in the office"

Cause to become widely known. Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread. "Circulate a rumor" , "Broadcast the news"

Cause be distributed. Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on.

Move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point. "The air here does not circulate"

Move in circles. Synonym: circle.

Cause to move in a circuit or system.

Move around freely.

Cause to move around. Synonyms: mobilise, mobilize.

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"Circulate" Quotes from Famous Books

... disposition to jocosity on this subject, not sufficiently entertained by incidents of our own day, will range back to that case of Milton and Mary Powell two hundred and twenty-eight years ago, and join in the gossip which it then began to circulate through the town. In the lobby of the House of Commons it must have been heard of: it may have given a relish to the street-talk of reverend Presbyterian gentlemen talking home together from the Assembly "Only a month or two married; his wife gone home again; and now, ...

— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson

... It was lamentably true that whiskey did not agree with him; he knew it well enough. However, by this time he felt very comfortably warm at the pit of his stomach. The blood was beginning to circulate in his chilled finger-tips and in his soggy, wet feet. He had had a hard day of it; in fact, the last week, the last month, the last three or four months, had been hard. He deserved a little consolation. Nor could ...

— McTeague • Frank Norris

... so well-bred that no one person touches another; one need never jostle, but, with an occasional "I beg your pardon," can circulate with perfect ease. In such a crowd there can be ...

— As a Matter of Course • Annie Payson Call

... Eliphalet sitting with his famous umbrella on a bench in Boston Common. Perky thought Eliphalet was a stool pigeon for a con outfit, but explanations followed and it was a case of infatuation on both sides. The old man was as tickled with the scheme as a boy with a new dog. He now assists Perky to circulate the spurious medium of exchange. Perky says he's a wonderful ally, endowed with all the qualities of ...

— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson

... head, and, seeing that something was wrong—though he was still too drowsy to distinguish what it was—scrambled to his feet and advanced toward Gaunt. Up to that moment the engineer had not moved; he was waiting for the blood to circulate once more in his cramped limbs, and also for Henderson to give him the cue for their next movement. He remained perfectly still until the Malay had approached within arm's-length of him, and then, with a single lightning-like ...

— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood

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