circulate vs generalize

circulate and generalize both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
circulate	No	No	Yes	No
generalize	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, generalize is a hyponym of circulate; that is, generalize is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than circulate:

circulate: cause to become widely known
generalize: cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use

Other hyponyms of circulate include podcast, sow, generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize, carry, run.

circulate (verb)	generalize (verb)
cause to become widely known	become systemic and spread throughout the body
become widely known and passed on	speak or write in generalities
move around freely from person to person or from place to place	draw from specific cases for more general cases
move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point	cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
cause to be distributed
cause to move in a circuit or system