verb
Meaning 1
To make known or make public.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: declare, proclaim, publish
Antonyms: withhold
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verb
To make known or make public.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: declare, proclaim, publish
Antonyms: withhold
verb
To put into effect as a regulation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: carry out, execute, implement, put into effect
Antonyms: abrogate
verb
To advocate on behalf of (something or someone, especially of an idea); to spread knowledge of and make more widely known.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: nonstandard, transitive
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Synonyms: propagate, promote, disseminate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
past participle of promulgate
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, obsolete, participle, past
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
put a law into effect by formal declaration
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: announce, declare
verb
state or announce
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: proclaim, exclaim
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: declare
Narrower terms: declare, trumpet, clarion
History
Inherited from Middle English promulgaten, from Latin prōmulgātus, perfect passive participle of prōmulgō (“to make known, publish”), either from provulgō (“to make known, publish”), from pro (“forth”) + vulgō (“to publish”), or from mulgeō (“to bring forth”, literally “to milk”); see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of promulge.
Across languages
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