Synonyms for circulate
ˈsɜr kyəˌleɪtcir·cu·late

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1. circulateverb

   Synonyms:
   spread, disseminate, put about

2. circulateverb

   to move in circles or through a circuit

   Synonyms:
   put about, spread, disseminate

3. circulateverb

   to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit

   Synonyms:
   disseminate, spread, put about

4. circulateverb

   to move from person to person, as at a party

   Synonyms:
   put about, disseminate, spread

5. circulateverb

   to spread or disseminate

   Synonyms:
   disseminate, spread, put about

6. circulateverb

   to become widely known

   Synonyms:
   disseminate, spread, put about

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1. circulate

   To announce is to give intelligence of in some formal or public way. We may announce that which has occurred or that which is to occur, tho the word is chiefly used in the anticipative sense; we announce a book when it is in press, a guest when he arrives. We advertise our business, communicate our intentions, enunciate our views; we notify an individual, give notice to the public. Declare has often an authoritative force; to declare war is to cause war to be, where before there may have been only hostilities; we say declare war, proclaim peace. We propound a question or an argument, promulgate the views of a sect or party, or the decision of a court, etc. We report an interview, reveal a secret, herald the coming of some distinguished person or great event. Publish, in popular usage, is becoming closely restricted to the sense of issuing through the press; we announce a book that is to be published.

   Synonyms:
   advertise, announce, communicate, declare, enunciate, give notice (of), give out, herald, make known, notify, proclaim, promulgate, propound, publish, report, reveal, say, spread abroad, state, tell

   Antonyms:
   bury, conceal, cover (up), hide, hush, keep back, keep secret, secrete, suppress, withhold

   Preposition:
   The event was announced to the family by telegraph.

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1. circulate

   Synonyms:
   disseminate, disuse, propagate, publish, notify, spread, travel

   Antonyms:
   suppress, avert, hush, cease, stagnate

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1. go around, spread, circulateverb

   become widely known and passed on

   "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"

   Synonyms:
   fan out, unfold, circularise, outflank, overspread, disseminate, pass around, spread, distribute, spread out, broadcast, mobilize, get around, revolve, circle, mobilise, open, scatter, circularize, pass on, short-circuit, go around, propagate, rotate, disperse, bypass, diffuse

2. circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass aroundverb

   cause to become widely known

   "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"

   Synonyms:
   beam, shell out, fan out, lot, spread, mobilize, pervade, pass on, dish out, dissipate, deal out, allot, dot, overspread, break up, dispense, interpenetrate, dole out, unfold, penetrate, deal, parcel out, disperse, circularize, administer, give out, spread out, open, go around, pass around, sprinkle, hand out, mete out, dispel, mobilise, diffuse, broadcast, distribute, pass out, propagate, scatter, transmit, air, circularise, send, riddle, dust, stagger, imbue, permeate, disseminate, circle

3. circulate, pass around, pass on, distributeverb

   cause be distributed

   "This letter is being circulated among the faculty"

   Synonyms:
   shell out, lot, spread, mobilize, pass on, dish out, hand out, deal out, allot, progress, reach, communicate, dispense, advance, dole out, disseminate, deal, parcel out, disperse, circularize, administer, give, go on, give out, go around, pass around, pass, move on, pass along, mete out, mobilise, impart, diffuse, broadcast, put across, distribute, turn over, propagate, leave, pass out, relegate, circularise, march on, stagger, submit, hand, circle

4. circulateverb

   move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point

   "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate"

   Synonyms:
   distribute, go around, mobilise, pass on, circularise, diffuse, circle, disperse, propagate, pass around, spread, disseminate, circularize, broadcast, mobilize

5. circle, circulateverb

   move in circles

   Synonyms:
   pass on, circularise, pass around, disseminate, spread, diffuse, go around, broadcast, circle, mobilise, circularize, encircle, mobilize, propagate, disperse, distribute

6. circulateverb

   cause to move in a circuit or system

   "The fan circulates the air in the room"

   Synonyms:
   distribute, go around, mobilise, pass on, circularise, diffuse, circle, disperse, propagate, pass around, spread, disseminate, circularize, broadcast, mobilize

7. circulateverb

   move around freely

   "She circulates among royalty"

   Synonyms:
   distribute, go around, mobilise, pass on, circularise, diffuse, circle, disperse, propagate, pass around, spread, disseminate, circularize, broadcast, mobilize

8. mobilize, mobilise, circulateverb

   cause to move around

   "circulate a rumor"

   Synonyms:
   summon, circularise, disseminate, pass around, marshal, spread, diffuse, go around, broadcast, circle, mobilise, circularize, pass on, call up, mobilize, propagate, disperse, distribute, rally

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1. • Flow
   • Move
   • Travel

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1. spread the wordverb

   to spread the word means to get people to be aware of something. to make them pay attention. to advertise, broadcast, blazon, and circulate have extremely similar meanings.

   the human rights organization is bringing awareness to the world.

   Submitted by noemailfromme on February 8, 2022  

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1. circulateverb

   Synonyms:
   move round, move in a circle

2. circulateverb

   Synonyms:
   spread, be diffused, have currency

3. circulateverb

   Synonyms:
   spread, diffuse, disseminate, promulgate, propagate, give currency to, spread abroad

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1. circulateverb

   Synonyms:
   disseminate, promulgate, diffuse

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1. List of paraphrases for "circulate":

   distribute, disseminate, circular, move

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How to use circulate in a sentence?

1. Rochelle Walensky:

   Although delta continues to circulate widely in the United States, omicron is increasing rapidly and we expect it to become the dominant strain in the United States – as it has in other countries – in the coming weeks, we've seen cases of omicron among those who are both vaccinated and boosted and we believe these cases are milder or asymptomatic because of vaccine protection.

2. Gothom Arya:

   In a situation of economic difficulty they have to stimulate consumption and what they think is: give grassroots people money and it will circulate, though the junta's action is exactly the same as previous governments, they claim that this time money will not leak.

3. Timothy Beal:

   They break off from the larger text and circulate like little viruses in our culture that hook on to other things and that's when they really take off and spread.

4. Roberto Burioni:

   What we should achieve is widespread immunization, one possible scenario is that, if we are able to vaccinate a huge majority of people, this virus will circulate but will not do much damage.

5. Dante Lauretta:

   Water probably did circulate through the interior of the asteroid, like a hydrothermal system on Earth, and altered the originally anhydrous rocky material, forming these clays.