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Proliferate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring.

verb-intransitive. To increase or spread at a rapid rate: fears that nuclear weapons might proliferate.

v. To cause to grow or increase rapidly.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To increase in number or spread rapidly.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.

v. To produce zooids by budding.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To reproduce; grow by multiplication of elementary parts.

Specifically, in zoology, to generate or reproduce by the act of proliferation; bear generative persons or zoöids, as distinguished from nutritive persons, as is the usual process in the hydroid polyps.

To bear; form by reproduction.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. grow rapidly

v. cause to grow or increase rapidly

Word Usage

"And as these labels proliferate to envelop just about every piece of unconventional childhood behavior, our view of what is normal is shrinking."

Verb Form

proliferated proliferates proliferating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

grow manifold multiply

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

generate