circulate
/ˈsɝ.kjʊˌleɪt/ verb C1- To move in circles or through a circuit.
- To cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit.
- To move from person to person, as at a party.
- To spread or disseminate. · to circulate money or gossip
- To become widely known.
- Of decimals: to repeat. · a circulating decimal
He/she/it circulates · Past circulated · Past participle circulated · -ing form circulating
Verb forms
- Base form
- circulate
- He/she/it
- circulates
- Past
- circulated
- Past participle
- circulated
- -ing form
- circulating
From the library
The rumor of Edmond’s arrest as a Bonapartist agent was not slow in circulating throughout the city.
Collins readily assented, and a book was produced; but on beholding it (for everything announced it to be from a circulating library) he started back, and, begging pardon, protested that he never read novels.
Has it not been industriously circulated by yourselves?
That would boom the market; she will buy heavily, and she will certainly lose when Beauchamp announces the following day, in his gazette, ‘The report circulated by some usually well-informed persons that the king was seen yesterday at Gabrielle’s house, is totally without foundation.
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