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Proliferate

Pro-lif′er-ate

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
proles
offspring +
ferre
to bear.]
1.
(Biol.)
To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.
2.
(Zool.)
To produce zooids by budding.

Definition 2024


proliferate

proliferate

English

Verb

proliferate (third-person singular simple present proliferates, present participle proliferating, simple past and past participle proliferated)

  1. To increase in number or spread rapidly.
    The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
      But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

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  • proliferate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • proliferate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Italian

Verb

proliferate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of proliferare
  2. second-person plural imperative of proliferare
  3. feminine plural of proliferato

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