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publicise

Other forms: publicised; publicising

Definitions of publicise
  1. verb
    make public
    synonyms: air, bare, publicize
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    types:
    hype
    publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner
    bulletin
    make public by bulletin
    bring out, issue, publish, put out, release
    prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
    air, beam, broadcast, send, transmit
    disseminate over the airwaves, as in radio or television
    edit
    supervise the publication of
    podcast
    distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer
    satellite
    broadcast or disseminate via satellite
    sportscast
    broadcast a sports event
    sow
    introduce into an environment
    telecast, televise
    broadcast via television
    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
    interrogate
    transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication
    rebroadcast, rerun
    broadcast again, as of a film
    carry, run
    include as the content; broadcast or publicize
    type of:
    tell
    let something be known
  2. verb
    call attention to
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    types:
    headline
    publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline
    ballyhoo
    advertise noisily or blatantly
    type of:
    announce, denote
    make known; make an announcement
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