circulate
verb
[ ˈsəːkjʊleɪt ]
• move continuously or freely through a closed system or area.
• "antibodies circulate in the bloodstream"
• pass from place to place or person to person.
• "rumours of his arrest circulated"
Similar:
spread,
spread about,
spread around,
pass around,
pass on,
communicate,
disseminate,
transmit,
make known,
air,
put about,
bandy about,
make public,
broadcast,
publicize,
advertise,
publish,
post,
propagate,
promulgate,
blazon abroad,
noise abroad,
distribute,
give out,
issue,
purvey,
bruit about/abroad,
be passed around,
get around,
go the rounds,
Origin:
late 15th century (as an alchemical term meaning ‘distil something in a closed container, allowing condensed vapour to return to the original liquid’): from Latin circulat- ‘moved in a circular path’, from the verb circulare, from circulus ‘small ring’ (see circle). circulate (sense 1) dates from the mid 17th century.
