To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
To become widespread.
The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.
Borrowed from Latin dissēminātus, the perfect passive participle of dissēminō (“to broadcast, disseminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from dis- (“asunder, in all directions”) + sēminō ...
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