proliferate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from proliferation.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɹəˈlɪf.əɹ.eɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]proliferate (third-person singular simple present proliferates, present participle proliferating, simple past and past participle proliferated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.
- The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
- 1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, , →JSTOR, page 763:
- When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- 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.
- 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:
- After decades of the type of mismanagement that proliferated across all the nationalised industries, the government was already aware that British Railways was in deep trouble.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to increase in number or spread
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Further reading
[edit]- “proliferate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “proliferate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]proliferate
- inflection of proliferare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]proliferate f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]proliferate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of proliferar combined with te
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