Assert and Circulate

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Become widely known and passed on.
  • usage: "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"
  • synonyms: go around, spread
• Cause to become widely known.
  • usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
  • synonyms: circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
• Cause be distributed.
  • usage: "This letter is being circulated among the faculty"
  • synonyms: pass around, pass on, distribute
• Move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point.
  • usage: "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate"
• Move in circles.
  • synonyms: circle
• Cause to move in a circuit or system.
  • usage: "The fan circulates the air in the room"
• Move around freely.
  • usage: "She circulates among royalty"
• Cause to move around.
  • usage: "circulate a rumor"
  • synonyms: mobilize, mobilise

• (v.i.) To pass from place to place, from person to person or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.
• (v.t.) To cause to pass from place to place or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.
• (v.i.) To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.