CIRCULATE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CIRCULATE?

Need another word that means the same as “circulate”? Find 28 synonyms and 30 related words for “circulate” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Circulate” are: distribute, pass around, pass on, broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, propagate, spread, go around, flow, course, move round, go round, socialize, mingle, spread about, spread around, communicate, transmit, make known, air, put about, be passed around, get around, go the rounds

Circulate as a Verb

Definitions of "Circulate" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “circulate” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point.
• Move around freely from person to person or from place to place.
• Move in circles.
• Pass from place to place or person to person.
• Cause to be distributed.
• Cause be distributed.
• Cause to become widely known.
• Send copies of a letter or leaflet to (a group of people.
• Cause to move around.
• Cause to move in a circuit or system.
• Become widely known and passed on.
• Move around freely.
• Move continuously or freely through a closed system or area.
• Move around a social function in order to talk to many different people.

Synonyms of "Circulate" as a verb (28 Words)

air	Expose a room to the open air in order to ventilate it. He took the opportunity of airing his knowledge of antiquity.
be passed around	Be priced at.
broadcast	Broadcast over the airwaves as in radio or television. We don t want to broadcast our unhappiness to the world.
circularise	Canvass by distributing letters.
circularize	Make circular. They circularize prospective purchasers at regular intervals.
communicate	Join or connect. The prisoner was forbidden to communicate with his family.
course	Move swiftly through or over. He often courses hares.
diffuse	Spread or diffuse through. Oxygen molecules diffuse across the membrane.
disperse	Move away from each other. Storms can disperse seeds via high altitudes.
disseminate	Spread throughout an organ or the body. There is a subset of these low grade tumours that can disseminate and migrate.
distribute	Cause be distributed. Information leaflets are being distributed to hotels.
flow	Fall or flow in a certain way. Her long black hair flowed down her back.
get around	Go or come after and bring or take back.
go around	Be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired.
go round	To be spent or finished.
go the rounds	Begin or set in motion.
make known	Prepare for eating by applying heat.
mingle	Get involved or mixed-up with. A smell which mingled disinfectant and soap.
move round	Give an incentive for action.
pass around	Pass by.
pass on	Be inherited by.
propagate	Cause to propagate as by grafting or layering. The plant propagates freely from stem cuttings.
put about	Make an investment.
socialize	Prepare for social life. The old man hates to socialize.
spread	Cover by spreading something over. Spread the bread with cheese.
spread about	Spread across or over.
spread around	Spread out or open from a closed or folded state.
transmit	Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission. Sexually transmitted diseases.

Usage Examples of "Circulate" as a verb

• This letter is being circulated among the faculty.
• Circulate a rumor.
• The couple circulated, chatting to their guests.
• The air here does not circulate.
• The fan circulates the air in the room.
• They were circulating the list to conservation groups.
• Rumours of his arrest circulated.
• Tutors were circulated with the handout.
• The fan circulates hot air around the oven.
• She circulates among royalty.
• Blood circulates in my veins.
• Antibodies circulate in the bloodstream.

Associations of "Circulate" (30 Words)

asunder	Into parts or pieces. As wide asunder as pole from pole.
broadcast	Broadcast over the airwaves as in radio or television. Broadcast seeds.
convolute	Rolled longitudinally upon itself. A convolute petal.
convolve	Roll or coil together; entwine.
cycle	Ride a motorcycle. Schubert s song cycles.
diffuse	Spread or diffuse through. Technologies diffuse rapidly.
dispel	Make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear. The brightness of the day did nothing to dispel Elaine s dejection.
disperse	Denoting a phase dispersed in another phase as in a colloid. The crowds dispersed.
disseminate	Cause to become widely known. There is a subset of these low grade tumours that can disseminate and migrate.
dissipate	Move away from each other. He inherited but then dissipated his father s fortune.
distribute	Be distributed or spread as in statistical analyses. Information leaflets are being distributed to hotels.
diversify	Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate. Diversify a course of study.
effluence	The action of flowing out.
flow	The act of flowing or streaming continuous progression. The museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors.
imbue	Fill soak or imbue totally. His works are invariably imbued with a sense of calm and serenity.
intersperse	Scatter among or between other things; place here and there. Intersperse exclamation marks in the text.
pervasiveness	The quality of filling or spreading throughout. The pervasiveness of the odor of cabbage in tenement hallways.
propagate	Cause to propagate as by grafting or layering. Sound and light propagate in this medium.
revolve	Move in an orbit. Their whole lives revolved around the company.
rotate	Change the position of (tyres) on a motor vehicle to distribute wear. Interns have to rotate for a few months.
scatter	The act of scattering. There are many watermills scattered throughout the marshlands.
scattered	(of electromagnetic radiation or particles) deflected or diffused. The forecast is for scattered showers.
spin	Spin dry clothes. They had to spin the ball wide.
spray	An act of spraying something. Cats usually spray areas they have sprayed before.
spread	The fact or process of spreading over an area. Spread each slice thinly with mayonnaise.
sprinkle	Place or attach (a number of things) at irregularly spaced intervals. He sprinkled his conversation with quotations.
strew	Cover (a surface or area) with untidily scattered things. Strew toys all over the carpet.
suffuse	Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across. His whole frame suffused with a cold dew.
turn	Cause to change or turn into something different assume new characteristics. Turn the mould upside down.
whirl	The act of rotating rapidly. The event was all part of the mad social whirl.