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.

Related terms

• proliferation
• proliferative
• proliferous
• prolific

Translations

External links

• 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

Anagrams

• petrolifera