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PASS AROUND
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to become widely known
Example:
broadcast the news
Synonyms:
broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "pass around" is one way to...):
air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)
Cause:
circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)
Verb group:
circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass around"):
podcast (distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer)
sow (introduce into an environment)
generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)
carry; run (include as the content; broadcast or publicize)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cause to be distributed
Example:
This letter is being circulated among the faculty
Synonyms:
circulate; distribute; pass around; pass on
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "pass around" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pass around"):
send around (forward to others)
utter (put into circulation)
scatter; spread; spread out (strew or distribute over an area)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
