circulate vs publicise

circulate and publicise both are verbs.

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

As verbs, publicise is a hypernym of circulate; that is, publicise is a word with a broader meaning than circulate:

Other hypernyms of circulate include air, bare, publicize.

circulate (verb)	publicise (verb)
cause to become widely known	make public
become widely known and passed on	call attention to
move around freely from person to person or from place to place
move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point
cause to be distributed
cause to move in a circuit or system